Chen, Wangxue; Xie, Minyu; Wu, Ming - In: Statistics & Probability Letters 83 (2013) 9, pp. 2060-2066
A modification of ranked set sampling (RSS) called moving extremes ranked set sampling (MERSS) is considered for the estimation of the scale parameter of scale distributions. A maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) is studied and its properties are obtained. We prove the MLE is an equivariant...