Estimation of the cumulative by fourier series methods and application to the insertion problem

  • Authors:
  • Michael E Tarter

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM '68 Proceedings of the 1968 23rd ACM national conference
  • Year:
  • 1968

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Abstract

In a paper published in last year's A.C.M. Proceedings a new method for estimating the population density, i.e., f, was described1 The procedure was based upon the use of sample trigonometric moments as unbiased estimates of density f's Fourier coefficients. It was noted, but not further discussed, that the cumulative distribution function F associated with density f could be approximated by an estimator &Fcirc;m associated with density estimator &fcirc;m, and that &Fcirc;m possessed the following properties: The coefficients &Bcirc;k are unbiased estimators of the Fourier coefficients of the function F(x)−[(x−a)/(b−a)] and therefore simple M.I.S.E. (Mean Integrated Square Error) expressions could be obtained for estimator &Fcirc;m. Also as m→@@, &Fcirc;m→F* where F* represents the sample cumulative (step function). In this paper the estimator &Fcirc;m will be more fully discussed and an application to the problem of address calculation insertion will be described.