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2025/106/3-4 (15) — DOI: 10.5486/PMD.2025.10085 — pp. 499-524

Basic properties of generalized $\psi$-estimators

Authors: Mátyás Barczy Orcid.org link for Mátyás Barczy and Zsolt Páles Orcid.org link for Zsolt Páles

Abstract:

We establish several properties of (weighted) generalized $\psi$-estimators introduced by Barczy and Páles in 2022: mean-type, monotonicity and sensitivity properties, bisymmetry-type inequality, and some asymptotic and continuity properties. We also illustrate these properties by providing several examples including statistical ones as well.

Keywords: generalized $\psi$-estimator, $Z$-estimator, mean-type property, sensitivity, bisymmetry-type inequality, asymptotic properties

Mathematics Subject Classification: 62F10, 62D99, 26E60