Estimating Historical Heights
历史身高的估计
Historical samples of military, naval, and merchant marine heights suffer from undercounts of short people, undercounts highly irregular compared to the truncated distributions for which standard methods are available. Our knowledge is too imprecise for parametric models of the undercount process but it suffices for intuitive description of the deviations from normality with which estimators should cope. Two new estimators are developed. The first adapts maximum likelihood…