Estimation of sums of random variables: Examples and information bounds

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2022-2041

  Zhang, Cun Hui ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data confidentiality; Disclosure risk; Efficient estimation; Empirical Bayes; Influence function; Information bound; Networks; Node degree; Species problem; Sum of variables; Utility

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344447556     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053605000000390     Document Type: Article

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