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Is it possible to have a point estimate outside of confidence interval? Could anyone give me an example?

Haitao Du
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  • Presumably with the qualification that the point estimate and the CI are estimating the same quantity. Otherwise, the answer is obviously yes. – Kodiologist Apr 04 '17 at 20:20
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    Just a few hours ago a nice example was posted at http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/271845. As the confidence narrows, this particular interval converges to the median of an asymmetric distribution, while the estimate itself is made at the mean of that distribution. Consequently, for a sufficiently small confidence the estimate must lie outside the confidence interval. – whuber Apr 04 '17 at 20:41

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