Improved pretest nonparametric estimation in a multivariate regression model

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2391-2421

  Ahmed, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asymptotic bias; Asymptotic distributional risk; Improved pretest estimators; Local alternatives; Nonparametric multivariate estimation; Rank order estimators; Shrinkage restricted estimators; Size of the pretest

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346978432     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929808832234     Document Type: Article

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