A robust alternative to the normal distribution

DOI10.2307/3314901zbMath0495.62039OpenAlexW2137788299MaRDI QIDQ3959281

Donald L. McLeish

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Canadian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3314901

zbMATH Keywords

Bessel distributionheavy tailsdependent dataadaptive estimatesrobust alternative to normal distributionrobustness of maximum-likelihood estimateswide-tailed distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Robustness and adaptive procedures (parametric inference) (62F35)

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