Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences STAT 400 - University Of Maryland
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Author: Jay L. Devore
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Chapter 6, Problem 35SE
To determine
Find the Hodges-Lehmann estimate for the data of Exercise 44 in Chapter 1.
State the estimator used.
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Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences STAT 400 - University Of Maryland
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