On the estimation of the unknown sample size from the number of records

J. L. Moreno Rebollo, I. Barranco Chamorro, F. López Blázquez and T. Gómez Gómez
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Fernando López-Blázquez

Statistics & Probability Letters, 1996, vol. 31, issue 1, 7-12

Abstract: Suppose we have observed only the number of records in a random sample of unknown size n from a continuous distribution. Based on this data, we propose an unbiased estimator of n and derive expressions for its maximum likelihood estimator and an estimator based on the method of moments.

Keywords: Lower; records; Estimation; Sample; size (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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