Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 27, No. 2, January, 1996 by Subject "Taxi problem"

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    • Estimation of the parameter in the discrete "Taxi" problem, with and without replacement 

      Largey, Ann; Spencer, John E. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)
      In the continuous uniform distribution [0,N], the Maximum Likelihood estimator of N is known to possess high mean square error for large samples. This paper examines this issue in the discrete case, without replacement ...

    • More about Geary and the "Taxi" problem 

      Conniffe, Denis; Geary, R. C. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)
      Geary's treatment of the "taxi" problem was recently re-examined by Spencer and Largey (1993). This paper investigates the topic further, partly to place Geary's estimator in the context of more general methods and also ...