Implementing and evaluating the nested maximum likelihood estimation technique

Estimating parameters describing response time distributions is difficult. The most commonly used method for parameter estimation is the maximum likelihood method (ML). However, this method applied on the three-parameter Weibull distribution returns biased estimates and the amount of bias is unknown...

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Main Author: Denis Cousineau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université d'Ottawa 2007-03-01
Series:Tutorials in Quantitative Methods for Psychology
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Online Access:http://www.tqmp.org/Content/vol03-1/p008/p008.pdf