On ranked-set sample quantiles and their applications

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 125-135

  Chen, Zehua ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Bahadur representation; Confidence interval; Hypothesis testing; Primary 62D05; Relative efficiency; Secondary 62G20

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001328487     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(99)00071-3     Document Type: Article

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