The distribution of total variation distance, with applications to simultaneous confidence intervals

DOI10.1016/0305-0548(94)00046-BMaRDI QIDQ1890965zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Mark Brown

Publication date 21 August 1995

Published in Computers \& Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

binomial distributionnormal distributionmaximum likelihood estimatorexponential distributionsimultaneous confidence intervalstotal variation distanceBorel setsasymptotically conservative set of confidence intervalsone-parameter parametric family

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10)

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