Circumstances in which different criteria of estimation can be applied to estimate policy effects

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 121-153

  Swamy, P A V B ^a   Mehta, J S ^b   Singamsetti, Rao N ^c  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Constrained estimation; Fixed coefficients models; Maximum likelihood; Nuisance parameters; Policy effects; Prediction; Stochastic coefficients models; Stochastic laws

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030584289     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-3758(95)00050-X     Document Type: Article

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