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| Jan Strackee, "The Slope of a Straight Line: A Phony Estimator," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 18, no. 10, pp. 1051, October, 1996. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/34.541416, author = {Jan Strackee}, title = {The Slope of a Straight Line: A Phony Estimator}, journal ={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence}, volume = {18}, number = {10}, issn = {0162-8828}, year = {1996}, pages = {1051}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/34.541416}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - JOUR JO - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence TI - The Slope of a Straight Line: A Phony Estimator IS - 10 SN - 0162-8828 SP EP EPD - 1051 A1 - Jan Strackee, PY - 1996 VL - 18 JA - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence ER - | |||
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.
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