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Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods Volume 20, 1991 - Issue 11
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Pitman closeness comparison of linear estimators:a canonical form

Robert L. Fountain The University of Texas at San Antonio
Pages 3535-3550 | Received 01 Oct 1990, Published online: 27 Jun 2007

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