Estimating and testing effect size from an arbitrary population

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 987-1001

  Al Kandari, Noriah M ^a   Buhamra, Sana S ^a   Ahmed, S E ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asymptotic bias; Asymptotic mean squared error; Effect size; Local alternatives; Monte Carlo simulation; Relative efficiency; Shrinkage and preliminary test estimators

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344440850     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650412331321124     Document Type: Article

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