A some times pool estimator of mean life under linex loss function

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2057-2067

  Rai, Omkar ^a,b  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Planning Commission India   (India)

Author keywords

Exponential distribution; Level of significance; Life test; Risk; Squared error loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347664735     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929608831820     Document Type: Article

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