A robust sequential fixed-width confidence interval for count data based on Bhattacharyya-Hellinger distance estimator

DOI10.1080/07474946.2016.1132061zbMath1338.62184OpenAlexW2331199604MaRDI QIDQ2805607

S. Yaser Samadi, T. N. Sriram

Publication date: 12 May 2016

Published in: Sequential Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/07474946.2016.1132061

zbMATH Keywords

robustnessasymptotic efficiencymaximum likelihoodstopping ruleasymptotic consistencyminimum Hellinger distancefixed-width confidence intervalgross-error contamination

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Nonparametric robustness (62G35) Sequential statistical analysis (62L10)

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