Chuck Cleland wrote:
>
> Hello:
> If I understand the concept correctly, a consistent statistic is one
> whose value approaches the population value as the sample size
> increases. I am looking for examples of statistics that are _not_
> consistent. The best examples would be statistics that are not
> computationally complex and could be understood by large and diverse
> audiences.
How about the universal counterexample, the mean of a Cauchy
distribution? It's simple if you present it as the ratio of two
standard normal distributions.
Bob
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