Pianto, Donald M.; Cribari-Neto, Francisco - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 55 (2011) 3, pp. 1394-1409
In this paper we study maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) of the roughness parameter of the distribution for speckled imagery (Frery et al., 1997). We discover that when a certain criterion is satisfied by the sample moments, the likelihood function is monotone and MLE estimates are...
