Triple-goal estimates in two-stage hierarchical models

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 455-471

  Shen, Wei ^a   Louis, Thomas A ^b,c  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained bayes estimates; Hierarchical models; Histogram estimates; Loss functions; Ranking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001578867     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00135     Document Type: Article

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