The exponential distribution analog of the Grubbs–Weaver method

Andrew V. Sills and Charles W. Champ

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2020, vol. 49, issue 8, 1894-1903

Abstract: Grubbs and Weaver (1947) suggest a minimum-variance unbiased estimator for the population standard deviation of a normal random variable, where a random sample is drawn and a weighted sum of the ranges of subsamples is calculated. The optimal choice involves using as many subsamples of size eight as possible. They verified their results numerically for samples of size up to 100, and conjectured that their “rule of eights” is valid for all sample sizes. Here we examine the analogous problem where the underlying distribution is exponential and find that a “rule of fours” yields optimality and prove the result rigorously.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2019.1565839

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