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In this review we discuss the six papers: Lehmann (1963) and Bickel and Lehmann (1974, 1975,1976a, 1976b, 1976c). The first paper deals with confidence intervals based on nonparametric tests, and the other papers discuss descriptive statistics for non12arametric models.
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Oja, H. (2012). Descriptive statistics for nonparametric models. The impact of some Erich Lehmann’s papers. In: Rojo, J. (eds) Selected Works of E. L. Lehmann. Selected Works in Probability and Statistics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1412-4_40
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