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most citedContribution to the theory of Pitman estimators

2 citations · 3 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

math.PR2021

The least favorable noise

Philip A. Ernst, Abram M. Kagan, L. C. G. Rogers

Suppose that a random variable of interest is observed perturbed by independent additive noise . This paper concerns the "the least favorable perturbation" $\hat Y_\ep$, whi…

math.ST2019

Statistical Meaning of Mean Functions

Abram M. Kagan, Paul J. Smith

The basic properties of the Fisher information allow to reveal the statistical meaning of classical inequalities between mean functions. The properties applied to scale mixtures of…

math.PR2019

Calibrating dependence between random elements

Abram M. Kagan, Gabor J. Székely

Attempts to quantify dependence between random elements X and Y via maximal correlation go back to Gebelein (1941) and Rényi (1959). After summarizing properties (including some ne…

math.ST2019

Efficiency requires innovation

Abram M. Kagan

In estimation a parameter from a sample from a population a simple way of incorporating a new observation into an estimator $\t…

math.ST2019

The KLR-theorem revisited

Abram M. Kagan

For independent random variables with all identically distributed and same for , we study the relation \[E\{a\bar X + b\bar Y|X_1 -\bar…

math.ST2015★ 1 cited

On the structure of UMVUEs

Abram M. Kagan, Yaakov Malinovsky

In all setups when the structure of UMVUEs is known, there exists a subalgebra (MVE-algebra) of the basic -algebra such that all -measurable statistics with fin…