We consider the problem of modifying the linear Bayes estimator for the mean of a distribution of unknown form by using an estimate of sample variance. The general conditions under which there is no ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 57, No. 1 (2008), pp. 75-87 (13 pages) Complex survey sampling is often used to sample a fraction of a large finite ...

This article was originally published on Built In by Eric Kleppen. Variance is a powerful statistic used in data analysis and machine learning. It is one of the four main measures of variability along ...