Nonparametric Optimality of the Sample Mean and Sample Variance

Authors
Shuster, Jonathan J.
Citation
J. Shuster, Jonathan, Nonparametric Optimality of the Sample Mean and Sample Variance, American statistician , 36(3A), 1982, pp. 176-178
Journal title
American statistician → ACNP
ISSN journal
00031305
Volume
36
Issue
3A
Year of publication
1982
Pages
176 - 178
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
In discussing sufficiency and completeness, textbooks tend to deal strictly with parametric families of distributions.This note deals with the multinomial and multihypergeometric distributions, which, as will be seen, can represent any distribution to be encountered in practice.