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Some Theorems on Invariant Estimators of Location

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This chapter gives precise forms of the best location-, scale- and shift-invariant estimators and gives explicit forms for various special cases.

This article was written in 1970 and submitted to a journal but the draft was lost and never has been published.

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  1. Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Kei Takeuchi

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Takeuchi, K. (2020). Some Theorems on Invariant Estimators of Location. In: Contributions on Theory of Mathematical Statistics. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55239-0_3

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