Abstract
Point estimation is a common activity in everyday life; only the name is new. For example, one sees a man and estimates his age from how he looks, or one measures the length of some object and obtains an estimate of its real length. We shall show in this chapter how data are used to construct point estimates of unknown parameters.
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Blom, G. (1989). Point Estimation. In: Probability and Statistics. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3566-8_12
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