On improved interval estimation for the generalized variance

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 305-320

  Iliopoulos, George ^a   Kourouklis, Stavros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Decision theory; Generalized variance; Improved point and interval estimation of a normal variance; Matrix normal distribution; Wishart distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032015199     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(97)00090-6     Document Type: Article

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