On the consistency of a spatial-type interval-valued median for random intervals

Beatriz Sinova and Stefan Van Aelst

Statistics & Probability Letters, 2015, vol. 100, issue C, 130-136

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Interval-valued data; Random intervals; Spatial median; Consistency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2015.02.014

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