Employing vague prior information in the construction of confidence sets

DOI10.1016/0047-259X(87)90100-XzbMath0644.62035MaRDI QIDQ1102654

George Casella, Jiunn Tzon Hwang

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Journal of Multivariate Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

coverage probabilitymultivariate normal distributionStein estimationmean estimationone-way analysis of variancemodified empirical BayesScheffé's method of estimation of contrastsunknown variance casevague prior specificationsvariable radius confidence set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12) Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25) Statistical decision theory (62C99) Empirical decision procedures; empirical Bayes procedures (62C12)

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