A new property of the inverse Gaussian distribution with applications

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 161-166

  Kourouklis, Stavros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Brewster Zidek type estimator; Decision theory; Improved interval estimation; Improved point estimation; Inverse Gaussian distribution; Monotone likelihood ratio property; Stein type estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031091899     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(96)00068-5     Document Type: Article

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