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Estimating the Mean

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This chapter deals with one of the elementary statistical problems, estimating the mean of a random sample from a normal distribution . We assume that the variance of this distribution is known. More general versions of this problem are addressed in later chapters.

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  1. SNTL and Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

    Nicholas T. Longford

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Longford, N.T. (2013). Estimating the Mean. In: Statistical Decision Theory. SpringerBriefs in Statistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40433-7_2

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