This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The paper deals with upper and lower bounds for the quality of (probability) density estimation. Connections are established between these ...

The problem of estimating from a sample a confidence region for the parameters of the distribution of maximum values is treated by setting up what are called "statistical estimation functions" ...

The identities or bounds that relate information measures (e.g., the entropy and mutual information) and estimation measures (e.g., the minimum means square error ...

Entropy estimation and information theory form the bedrock of our understanding of uncertainty and complexity in both natural and engineered systems. At its core, entropy quantifies the ...

THE first volume of this work, reviewed by Prof. R. A. Fisher in Nature of October 16, 1943, covered the subjects of frequency distributions and their properties ; theories of probability and sampling ...

The tenth edition of the Small Area Estimation (SAE) Conference was held in Maastricht from 17 to 19 August, 2016 and was jointly organised by Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and Maastricht University ...

The course provides a precise and accurate treatment of statistical ideas, methods and techniques. Topics covered are sampling distributions of statistics, point estimation, interval estimation, ...