Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods · 1983 · 10 citations · 19 references
Natural SciencesMathematicsProbability TheoryStatisticsDistribution AnalysisEstimation TheoryInferential StatisticsOrder StatisticsProbability DistributionsStatistical InferenceExact Distribution TheoryHigher-order StatisticsOptimal Linear EstimationOrder Statistic Distributions
This expository paper deals with the linear estimation of quantiles of location-scale families of distributions using a few selected order statistics.The general theory for the problem i s reviewed for the exact as well as the asymptotic cases.
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On the theory of order statistics
A. Rényi · Acta Mathematica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae · 1953 · 385 citations
On Some Useful "Inefficient" Statistics
Frederick Mosteller · The Annals of Mathematical Statistics · 1946 · 289 citations · Full text