Adaptive choice of mean or median in estimating the center of a symmetric distribution.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
; 80(18): 5803-6, 1983 Sep.
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ABSTRACT
An adaptive choice of the sample mean x(n) or the sample median m(n) is proposed for estimating the center of a symmetric distribution. This choice becomes correct as n --> infinity, and in simulation results for finite n it is almost as good as the better of x(n) and m(n).
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