Abstract: This note discusses a problem appropriate for a beginning mathematical statistics course. Four estimators of the standard deviation of a normal data source are compared using mean square error. Both the uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimator and the usual estimator are found to be inadmissible.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-11-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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