Combining the data from two normal populations to estimate the mean of one when their means difference is bounded

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-46

  van Eeden, Constance ^a,b   Zidek, James V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Admissibility; Estimation; Likelihood; Maximum likelihood; Minimaxity; Normal means; Relevance weighting; Restricted parameter spaces; Weighted likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346973190     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-259X(03)00049-6     Document Type: Article

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