Low bias mean estimator for symmetric and asymmetric unimodal distributions

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 99-107

  Lee, J Y ^a  

^a FAR EAST UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Robust study; Symmetric and asymmetric distributions; Trimmed mean estimator

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION;

STANDARD DEVIATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 0042663025     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2607(02)00123-2     Document Type: Article

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