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Asymptotic Methods in Statistical Inference - Statistics Centre

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100<br />

• We have ¯ ¯ = 2 2 .Thisis 1formoderate<br />

and distributions with heavier than normal<br />

tails, e.g. on a small number of d.f. By (11.1),<br />

¯ ¯<br />

≥ (1 − 2)2<br />

for any symmetric d.f. with f<strong>in</strong>ite variance.<br />

• A compet<strong>in</strong>g estimate of a centre of symmetry is<br />

the Hodges-Lehmann estimate ˆ = <br />

µ<br />

+ <br />

2<br />

where the median is over all pairs ≤ or (asymptotically<br />

equivalently) .Itcanbeshown<br />

that<br />

√ <br />

³ˆ − ´ → <br />

Ã<br />

0 1<br />

(<br />

12<br />

∙Z<br />

¸2)!<br />

2 () <br />

<br />

,<br />

with<br />

¯ =122 <br />

∙Z<br />

2 ()¸2

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