On the sampling performance of an improved Stein inequality restricted estimator

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 181-187

  Ohtani, Kazuhiro ^a   Wan, Alan T K ^b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Inequality constraints; Quadratic loss; Stein rule

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043044677     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-842X.00020     Document Type: Article

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