Article ID: | iaor20118402 |
Volume: | 2 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 98 |
End Page Number: | 98 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2006 |
Journal: | Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research |
Authors: | Aslam Muhammad, Pasha G R, Javed Muhammad |
Keywords: | estimation, maximum likelihood estimation |
In this paper, we present that how much the variances of the classical estimators, namely, maximum likelihood estimator and moment estimator deviate from the minimum variance bound while estimating for the Maxwell distribution. We also sketch this difference for the negative integer moment estimator. We note the poor performance of the negative integer moment estimator in the said consideration while maximum likelihood estimator attains minimum variance bound and becomes an attractive choice.