Positivity of the best unbiased L-estimator of the scale parameter with complete or selected order statistics from location-scale distribution

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 181-188

  Bai, Zhidong ^a,b   Sarkar, Sanat K ^a   Wang, Wenjin ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Asymtotically best unbiased L estimator; Negative correlation; Spacings; TP2 densities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031093718     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(96)00071-5     Document Type: Article

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