Adaptive choice of mean or median in estimating the center of a symmetric distribution

DOI10.1073/PNAS.80.18.5803MaRDI QIDQ3662435zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Tze Leung Lai, Kai F. Yu, Herbert Robbins

Publication date 1983

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.80.18.5803

zbMATH Keywords

adaptive estimationsample meansample mediancenter of symmetric distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Robustness and adaptive procedures (parametric inference) (62F35)

Cited in

(3)

• A simple and competitive estimator of location
• Estimation of quantile density function based on regression quantiles
• Mode-based estimation of the center of symmetry

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