Buffon got it straight

DOI10.1016/S0167-7152(97)00145-4MaRDI QIDQ1387692zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Graham R. Wood, Jack M. Robertson

Publication date 10 August 1998

Published in Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0167-7152(97)00145-4

zbMATH Keywords

informationasymptotic efficiencyasymptotic varianceBuffon needle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05)

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