Bayes/frequentist compromise decision rules for Gaussian sampling

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 191-207

  Eberly, Lynn E ^a   Louis, Thomas A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes risk; Contamination; Frequentist risk; Mixture; Robustness; t prior

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742289091     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(03)00134-4     Document Type: Article

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