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O( (w/n - SE(d))3)
Simplifying SE-1 and its derivatives we can rewrite the
above equation as
Taking expected values we find that
since
E[w/n - SE(d)] = E[w/n] - SE(d) = 0. When
then
,
and hence
E[d*] is a consistent estimator (we could correct it to any
order of n if desired).
Chantal Korostensky
1999-07-14