Simultaneous estimation of location parameters for sign-invariant distributions

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 2259-2272

  Xu, Jian Lun ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Location parameters; Quadratic loss; Risk function; Sign invariant distributions; Simultaneous estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031517202     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1069362397     Document Type: Article

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