Downton's linear estimator of the standard deviation is adapted to symmetrically censored normal samples by tabulating the unbiasing factor. The efficiency of this estimator in small samples is studied, as well as its behaviour when applied to a contaminated normal distribution. Such an estimator may be useful in detecting outliers.
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M. J. R. Healy (1978) studied this question.