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Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods Volume 19, 1990 - Issue 2
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Testing for the mean of the inverse gaussian distribution and adaptive estimation of parameters

B. N Pandey Department of Statistics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
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H. J. Malik Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
Pages 629-637 | Received 01 May 1989, Published online: 23 Dec 2010

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