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- From: peterw@zen.maths.uts.edu.au (Peter Wright)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
- Subject: Re: sigma from range
- Date: 22 Nov 92 22:45:37 GMT
- Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
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- In <1992Nov20.161226.27020@nosc.mil> marchett@antares.nosc.mil (Dave Marchette) writes:
-
- >Let x1,...,xn be iid normal 0, sigma, and let x(1),...,x(n)
- >be the order statistics. Assume that only n and x(n)-x(1)
- >are known. That is, only the number of points and the total
- >spread of the points is known. What is the appropriate estimate
- >of sigma?
-
- An unbiased estimator of sigma is the range divided by a constant (which is
- a function of n). Unfortunately there is no nice closed expression for the
- constant, since it is the solution to an integral equation. However the
- constant is tabulated in lots of places, especially in quality control texts.
- Some refs:
-
- Pearson E.S. (1942) "The Probability Integral of the Range ...",
- Biometrika, 32, p.301-310.
- Dixon, W.J. & Massey, F.J. (1969) "Introduction to Statistical Analysis",
- McGraw-Hill, p.136, p.486.
- Duncan, A.J. (1986) "Quality Control and Industrial Statistics", Irwin,
- p.481, p.1005.
- Montgomery, D.C. (1991) "Introduction to Statistical Quality Control", Wiley,
- p.204, p.A-15.
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