Buffon got it straight

DOI10.1016/S0167-7152(97)00145-4zbMATH Open0906.60010OpenAlexW1968928148MaRDI QIDQ1387692FDOQ1387692

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

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zbMATH Keywords

informationasymptotic efficiencyasymptotic varianceBuffon needle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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