Non-parametric inferences based on general unbalanced ranked-set samples

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 291-310

  Chen, Zehua ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Distribution function estimation; Life testing; Quantile estimation; Ranked set sampling; Statistical functional

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005355365     PISSN: 10485252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10485250108832854     Document Type: Article

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