Asymptotic properties of the NPMLE of a distribution function based on ranked set samples

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1036-1049

  Huang, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Consistency; Efficiency; Fredholm integral equation; Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation; Ranked set sample

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031477985     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1069362737     Document Type: Article

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