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Jackknife estimators of the variance of estimators which are functions of the sample mean are considered. A quadratic approximation of them is proposed and compared with a linear approximation by Monte Carlo experiments carried out by statistical software Minitab.
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Cubeddu, C., Targhetta, M.L. A quadratic approximation for Jackknife estimators of the variance of sample mean functions. Statistical Papers 40, 1–12 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02927107
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