A normal limit law for a nonparametric estimator of the coverage of a random sample

DOI10.1214/aos/1176346256zbMath0599.62053MaRDI QIDQ1080585

Warren W. Esty

Publication date: 1983

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176346256

zbMATH Keywords

confidence intervals; convergence in distribution; asymptotically normal; occupancy problem; multinomial population

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G05: Nonparametric estimation

60F05: Central limit and other weak theorems

62G15: Nonparametric tolerance and confidence regions

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