On the Erratic Behavior of Estimators of N in the Binomial N, p Distribution

DOI10.2307/2291231MaRDI QIDQ4292164zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter Hall

Publication date 10 July 1994

Published in Journal of the American Statistical Association (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2291231

zbMATH Keywords

binomial distributionCauchy distributioncentral limit theoremheavy tailslight tailsmaximum likelihoodmethod-of-moments estimatorsrobust properties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12)

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