More data or better data? A statistical decision problem

DOI10.1093/RESTUD/RDX005MaRDI QIDQ4610860zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeff Dominitz, Charles F. Manski

Publication date 23 January 2019

Published in Review of Economic Studies (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/24f72130ef38f459da278703ff8fb7f6b04df190

zbMATH Keywords

minimax regretmissing datapoint predictionsample designstatistical decision theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General considerations in statistical decision theory (62C05) Statistical block designs (62K10) Applications of statistics to economics (62P20)

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