Asymmetric quasimedians: Remarks on an anomaly

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 261-268

  Mudholkar, Govind S ^a   Hutson, Alan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic expansions; Bias variance tradeoff

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031569090     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(96)00082-x     Document Type: Article

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