Estimation of Location and Scale in Cauchy Distributions Using the Empirical Characteristic Function
利用经验特征函数估计柯西分布的位置与尺度
The iterative method for the parameter estimation of stable laws proposed by Koutrouvelis (1981) is modified to handle the case where the distribution is assumed to belong to a Cauchy family with location and/or scale parameter unknown. It is shown that the determination of optimum values at which the empirical characteristic function needs to be evaluated reduces in this case to the determination of the asymptotically optimum quantiles for the parameter estimation of an…