Stein's Estimation Rule and Its Competitors--An Empirical Bayes Approach

DOI10.2307/2284155zbMath0275.62005OpenAlexW4237411588MaRDI QIDQ5184282

Efron, Bradley, Carl N. Morris

Publication date: 1973

Published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2284155

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Bayesian inference (62F15) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Nonparametric tolerance and confidence regions (62G15)

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