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On the estimation of the unknown sample size from the number of records

✍ Scribed by J.L. Moreno Rebollo; I. Barranco Chamorro; F. López Blázquez; T. Gómez Gómez

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
188 KB
Volume
31
Category
Article
ISSN
0167-7152

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✦ Synopsis

Suppose we have observed only the number of records in a random sample of unknown size n from a continuous distribution. Based on this data, we propose an unbiased estimator of n and derive expressions for its maximum likelihood estimator and an estimator based on the method of moments.

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