The maximal variance of Lipschitz functions (with respect to the ℓ 1-distance) of independent random vectors is found. This is then used to solve the isoperimetric problem, uniformly in the class of ...

The authors develop jackknife and analytical variance estimators for the estimator of Chambers & Dunstan (1986) and Rao, Kovar & Mantel (1990) of the finite population distribution function, using ...