The Slope of a Straight Line: A Phony Estimator

  • Authors:

  • Jan Strackee

  • Affiliations:

  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

This note discusses an estimator for the slope of a straight line as proposed by Werman and Geyzel [1]. By computing its frequency distribution, it is demonstrated that the estimator is a fake; it possesses neither a first nor a second moment. Application leads therefore to completely erratic outcomes.