'Examine if estimator is unbiased'

Posted by Nupur on May 28, 2014; 6:26pm
URL: http://discussion-forum.276.s1.nabble.com/Examine-if-estimator-is-unbiased-tp7590905.html

A random variable X has a continuous uniform distribution over the interval from 0 to θ, where θ is an unknown parameter.  If the Sum of the largest and smallest values of X in the sample of n observations of X is used to estimate θ, explain whether or not the estimator is (1) unbiased (2) consistent.