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

DOI10.2307/2291231zbMATH Open0803.62019OpenAlexW4246990938MaRDI QIDQ4292164FDOQ4292164

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

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zbMATH Keywords

binomial distributionheavy tailsmaximum likelihoodcentral limit theoremCauchy distributionlight tailsrobust propertiesmethod-of-moments estimators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12)

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