Mean unbiased medians, median unbiased means, and symmetric random walks

MaRDI QIDQ1900835zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Lutz Mattner

Publication date 20 March 1996

Published in Mathematical Methods of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

arithmetic of distribution functionscharacteristic functioncharacterization of symmetryconstancy of regressioncounterexamplesdecomposition of random variablesEdgeworth expansionfirst entrance time distributionslocationmean unbiased estimatorsmedianmoment problemrandom walkssample medians

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Nonparametric estimation (62G05)

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