Empirical Bayes estimation for truncation parameters

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 84, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 111-120

  Ma, Yimin ^a   Balakrishnan, N ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asymptotic optimality; Empirical Bayes estimator; Squared error loss; Truncation parameter

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346856221     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(99)00113-5     Document Type: Article

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