Hsing, Peter Shih-Shiang2014-03-142014-03-141964-08-05etd-11092012-040207http://hdl.handle.net/10919/45567This thesis is an extension of the development of orthogonal statistics which can be used to investigate sampling properties of moment estimators. This work is particularized for estimators of parameters of the negative binomial distribution.65 leavesBTDapplication/pdfIn CopyrightLD5655.V855 1964.H745Negative binomial distributionOrthogonal polynomialsOrthogonal statistics involving the third and fourth sample moments for negative binomial distributionThesishttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11092012-040207/