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Robustness of the Simultaneous Estimators of Location and Scale From Approximating a Histogram by a Normal Density Curve

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  • A. S. Hedayat
  • Guoqin Su

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The robust properties of the simultaneous estimators of location and scale parameters (μ*, σ*) proposed by Brown and Hwang are studied. As a pair of simultaneous M estimators of location and scale, their asymptotic efficiencies (0.650 for μ* and 0.541 for σ*) are higher than those for median (0.637) and median absolute deviation (0.368) under the normal distribution. Simulation indicates that the distributions of and are much flatter than those based on the sample mean and the sample standard deviation under the normal distribution when the sample size is small.

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  • A. S. Hedayat & Guoqin Su, 2012. "Robustness of the Simultaneous Estimators of Location and Scale From Approximating a Histogram by a Normal Density Curve," The American Statistician, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 66(1), pages 25-33, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:amstat:v:66:y:2012:i:1:p:25-33
    DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2012.663665
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