Strawderman-type estimators for a scale parameter with application to the exponential distribution

DOI10.1016/j.jspi.2009.02.004zbMath1368.62018MaRDI QIDQ2390460

Stavros Kourouklis, Panayiotis Bobotas

Publication date: 22 July 2009

Published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspi.2009.02.004

zbMATH Keywords

decision theory; inverse Gaussian; Stein-type estimators; mixed effects models; monotone likelihood ratio property; Brewster and Zidek-type estimators; improved estimators of a scale parameter; Strawderman-type estimators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62F10: Point estimation

62C99: Statistical decision theory

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