Ridge estimator in singular design with application to Age-Period-Cohort analysis of disease rates

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 263-278

  Fu, Wenjiang J ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collinearity; Identifiability; Intrinsic estimator; Shrinkage

Indexed keywords

EID: 14044262265     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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