Bayesian estimation for shifted exponential distributions

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 345-351

  Madi, Mohamed T ^a   Leonard, Tom ^b  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes estimators; Risk improvements; Robustness; Scale parameter; Squared error loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030575757     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(95)00199-9     Document Type: Article

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