A new general interpretation of the Stein estimate and how it adapts: Applications

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 247-268

  Dasgupta, Anirban ^a   Sinha, Bimal K ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute error loss; Extreme value distribution; Location parameter; Risk; Schwartz's inequality; Spherically symmetric; Squared error loss; Weak law of large numbers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012846647     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(98)00146-3     Document Type: Article

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