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

DOI10.1073/PNAS.80.18.5803zbMATH Open0515.62029OpenAlexW2021680704WikidataQ37350029 ScholiaQ37350029MaRDI QIDQ3662435FDOQ3662435

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 (2)

• A simple and competitive estimator of location
• Estimation of quantile density function based on regression quantiles

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