Shrinkage and modification techniques in estimation of variance and the related problems: A review

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 28, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 613-650

  Kubokawa, Tatsuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Empirical and generalized Bayes rules; Estimation of restricted parameters; Estimation of variance; Linear calibration problem; Noncentrality parameter; Shrinkage procedure; Statistical decision theory; Variance components

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009884521     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929908832317     Document Type: Review

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