Sample quantiles and additive statistics: Information, sufficiency, estimation

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 93-108

  Landsman, Zinoviy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Additive statistics; Asymptotic sufficiency; Estimation; Fisher information measure; Sample quantiles

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030171848     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-3758(95)00107-7     Document Type: Article

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