Estimating the center of symmetry: is it always better to use larger sample sizes?

DOI10.1016/j.jspi.2005.06.003zbMath1097.62011OpenAlexW2092423544MaRDI QIDQ2507884

Sudip Bose

Publication date: 5 October 2006

Published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspi.2005.06.003

zbMATH Keywords

order statisticsstochastic orderlinear estimatorsstable distributionsmajorizationpeakednessPitman closenesssymmetric distributionssymmetric stable distributionsuniversal dominationstochastic concentrationmarginal Pitman closeness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinitely divisible distributions; stable distributions (60E07) Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Point estimation (62F10)

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Cites Work

• Universal domination and stochastic domination: Estimation simultaneously under a broad class of loss functions
• Pitman's measure of closeness for symmetric stable distributions
• On Random Variables with Comparable Peakedness
• Inequalities: theory of majorization and its applications
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