Where is the fisher information in an ordered sample?

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1267-1280

  Zheng, Gang ^a   Gastwirth, Joseph L ^b  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decomposition of fisher information; Limiting Pitman efficiency; Location scale family; Matrix expression; Multiply censored data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034553803     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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