A note on the variance of a lightly trimmed mean when multiple outliers are present in the sample

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 339-343

  Balakrishnan, N ^a   David, H A ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; L estimators; Location outliers; Mean square error; Order statistics; Product moments; Recurrence relation; Scale outliers; Trimmed mean

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042910553     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(00)00238-8     Document Type: Article

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