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This is a continuing paper of the authors (1998, Ann. Inst. Statist. Math., 50, 361–377). In the Wicksell corpuscle problem, the maximum size of random spheres in a volume part is to be predicted from the sectional circular distribution of spheres cut by a plane. The size of the spheres is assumed to follow the three-parameter generalized gamma distribution. Prediction methods based on the moment estimation are proposed and their performances are evaluated by simulation. For a practically probable case, one of these prediction methods is as good as a method previously proposed by the authors where the two shape parameters are assumed to be known.
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Takahashi, R., Sibuya, M. Prediction of the Maximum Size in Wicksell's Corpuscle Problem, II. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 53, 647–660 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014697919230
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