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Maximum probability estimators for ranked means

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This research was supported by ONR contracts N00014-68A-0091 and Nonr 401(53), and by NSF grants GP-8958 and GP-7798.

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Dudewicz, E.J. Maximum probability estimators for ranked means. Ann Inst Stat Math 25, 467–477 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02479392

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