New classes of improved confidence intervals for the variance of a normal distribution

DOI10.1007/s00184-010-0338-0zbMath1300.62027MaRDI QIDQ453713

Stavros Kourouklis, Constantinos Petropoulos

Publication date: 27 September 2012

Published in: Metrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00184-010-0338-0

zbMATH Keywords

decision theory; improved point estimation and interval estimation; variance of a normal distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62F25: Parametric tolerance and confidence regions

62C12: Empirical decision procedures; empirical Bayes procedures

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