Truncated means and variances

Economics Letters

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 263-267

  Burdett, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Log concavity; Truncated means; Truncated variances

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030222526     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(96)00874-9     Document Type: Article

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