On a new interpretation of the sample variance

Statistical Papers

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 827-837

  Mukhopadhyay, Nitis ^a   Chattopadhyay, Bhargab ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Actuarial mathematics; Economic theory; Gini's mean difference; Mathematical finance; Sample variance; U statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879459419     PISSN: 09325026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00362-012-0465-y     Document Type: Article

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