Bayes empirical Bayes approach to estimation of the failure rate in exponential distribution

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1457-1465

  Li, Tze Fen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Admissible; Asymptotic optimality; Empirical Bayes; Exponential distribution; Failure rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 31244437536     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-120013004     Document Type: Article

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