Rigorous error control methods for estimating means of bounded random variables

DOI10.1016/J.JSPI.2014.08.007MaRDI QIDQ473522zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Zhengjia Chen, Xin-Jia Chen

Publication date 24 November 2014

Published in Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc5026247

zbMATH Keywords

bounded random variablemean estimationrigorous error control method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Parametric inference under constraints (62F30) Communication theory (94A05)

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