On the distribution of functionals of discrete ordinal variables

DOI10.1016/J.SPL.2012.07.002MaRDI QIDQ712549zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paola Cerchiello, Paolo Giudici

Publication date 17 October 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2012.07.002

zbMATH Keywords

\(L\)-estimatorsdiscrete ordinal variablesdiscrete parentsintuitive statistical summary measureorder statisticsordinal dataquantile based measurestrimmed meanWinsored mean

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30)

Review text

The topic of the distribution of functionals of discrete ordinal variables is treated. Here, the joint probability distribution functions of order statistics such as the minimum and the maximum, the median and the first and third quantiles are presented. The appropriate combination of location measures can be very useful in describing the characteristics of a given discrete distribution when the ultimate goal is to offer a concise and intuitive statistical summary measure. Moreover, the analytical distribution of two well-known \(L\)-estimators is given: the trimmed mean and the Winsored mean, considered as robust versions of the arithmetic mean. The paper concludes with a practical application of the proposed methodology by an academic evaluation in the context of customer satisfaction data.

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