Estimation of scale parameter under entropy loss function

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 77-91

  Parsian, Ahmad ^a,b   Nematollahi, Nader ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Admissible estimator; Bayes estimator, Entropy loss; Gamma distribution; Inadmissibility; Scale parameter

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030163642     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-3758(95)00026-7     Document Type: Article

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