A note on robustness of the β-trimmed mean

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 113-117

  Clarke, Brenton R ^a   Gamble, David K ^a   Bednarski, Tadeusz ^b,c  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Adaptive estimation; Asymptotic normality; Exponential distribution; Fr chet differentiability; Trimmed likelihood estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034386962     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-842X.00111     Document Type: Article

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