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The Gaussian Hare and the Laplacian Tortoise: Computability of Squared- Errorversus Absolute-Error Estimators

Stephen Portnoy; Roger Koenker

Statistical Science, Vol. 12, No. 4. (Nov., 1997), pp. 279-296.

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