Estimating the variance of the sample median

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 295-305

  Price, Robert M ^a   Bonett, Douglas G ^b  

^a EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution free; Sample median; Variance estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035532276     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650108812071     Document Type: Article

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