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A note on minimum distance estimates

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It is shown that minimum distance estimates enjoy the invariance property of maximum likelihood estimates.

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  1. University of Patras, Patras, Greece

    Constantine A. Drossos & Andreas N. Philippou

  2. American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

    Constantine A. Drossos & Andreas N. Philippou

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  1. Constantine A. Drossos
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Supported under Grant No. 18-2773 of the American University of Beirut.

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Drossos, C.A., Philippou, A.N. A note on minimum distance estimates. Ann Inst Stat Math 32, 121–123 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02480318

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