This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper obtains and explores a family of confidence procedures for the mean of a normal distribution which are, in a certain sense, more ...

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Identify characteristics of “good” estimators and be able to compare competing estimators. Construct sound estimators using the techniques of maximum likelihood and method of moments estimation.

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We propose a numerical optimization approach that can be used to solve portfolio selection problems including several assets and involving objective functions from cumulative prospect theory (CPT).