title: Efficiency of the u,v method of estimation.
abstract: Given a pool of motorists, how do we estimate the total intensity of those who had a prespecified number of traffic accidents in the past year? We previously have proposed the u,v method as a solution to estimation problems of this type. In this paper, we prove that the u, v method provides asymptotically efficient estimators in an important special case.
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Robbins
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000339:Affect; D001334:Automobile Driving / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000453:epidemiology; D016012:Poisson Distribution; D015203:Reproducibility of Results