Estimation of the smallest normal variance with applications to variance components models

DOI10.1016/j.spl.2017.08.005zbMath1391.62012OpenAlexW2747862202MaRDI QIDQ2406801

Stavros Kourouklis, Panayiotis Bobotas

Publication date: 6 October 2017

Published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2017.08.005

zbMATH Keywords

decision theoryStein-type estimatorsBrewster and Zidek-type estimatorsStrawderman-type estimatorsimproved confidence intervals of a normal varianceimproved estimators of a normal variance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25) Point estimation (62F10) Statistical decision theory (62C99) Analysis of variance and covariance (ANOVA) (62J10)

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