Chen, Jiahua; van Eeden, Constance; Zidek, James - In: Statistics & Probability Letters 80 (2010) 23-24, pp. 1764-1770
Statisticians have long viewed the quest for more information, for example through the acquisition of additional data, as being central to the goal of reducing uncertainty about some aspect of the world. This paper explores that objective through the variance, a common way of quantifying...