Balakrishnan, N.; Papadatos, N. - In: Statistics & Probability Letters 57 (2002) 2, pp. 193-204
Linear functions on spacings--instead of linear functions on order statistics--are considered, in order to simplify the form of best linear unbiased estimators (BLUEs) and best linear invariant estimators (BLIEs) for the scale parameter in the classical location-scale family. Also, a sufficient...