Statistics & Probability Letters
Publication date:
2015-01-01
Volume:
100
Pages:
130 -
136
Publisher:
North-Holland Pub. Co.
Author:
Sinova, Beatriz
Van Aelst, Stefan
Keywords:
Interval-valued data, Random intervals, Spatial median, Consistency, Science & Technology, Physical Sciences, Statistics & Probability, Mathematics, UNIQUENESS, stat.ME, 0102 Applied Mathematics, 0104 Statistics, 1403 Econometrics, 3802 Econometrics, 4905 Statistics
Abstract:
© 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V. The dθ-median remains much more reliable than the mean when estimating the location of a random interval. We show that under general conditions the sample dθ-median is a strongly consistent estimator of the dθ-median.