New Technique to Estimate the Asymmetric Trimming Mean

A trimming mean eliminates the extreme observations by removing observations from each end of the ordered sample. In this paper, we adopted the Hogg's and Brys's tail weight measures. In addition, a new algorithm was proposed as a linear estimator based on the quartile; we used a quartile...

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Main Authors: A. M. H. Alkhazaleh, A. M. Razali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2010-01-01
Series:Journal of Probability and Statistics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/739154