Efficiency of the u,v method of estimation.

Robbins, H; Zhang, C H · Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A · 2000

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Abstract

Given a pool of motorists, how do we estimate the total intensity of those who had a prespecified number of traffic accidents in the past year? We previously have proposed the u,v method as a solution to estimation problems of this type. In this paper, we prove that the u, v method provides asymptotically efficient estimators in an important special case.

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