Statisticians frequently assume that data follow a normal distribution when developing statistical methods and performing practical data analysis. In most introductory statistics textbooks, the ...

Easily computed estimates of the mean and variance of a Normal distribution obtained from samples which are truncated or censored are described. The estimates require only a single auxiliary function ...

Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series A (1961-2002), Vol. 56, No. 2 (Jun., 1994), pp. 320-334 (15 pages) Given a random variable with distribution indexed by a one dimensional parameter θ, ...