Trimmed mean or sample median?
It is shown that in the symmetric case trimmed means are better estimates of location than sample medians, unless the error distributions are sharply peaked at the centre.
Year of publication: |
1994
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Authors: | Oosterhoff, J. |
Published in: |
Statistics & Probability Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0167-7152. - Vol. 20.1994, 5, p. 401-409
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Keywords: | Trimmed mean Sample median Asymptotic variance Peakedness |
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