A sharp estimate of the binomial mean absolute deviation with applications

DOI10.1016/J.SPL.2013.01.023MaRDI QIDQ1950779zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel Berend, Aryeh Kontorovich

Publication date 13 May 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2013.01.023

zbMATH Keywords

total variationdensity estimationbinomialmean absolute deviation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15)

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