On estimation following selection from nonregular distributions

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2543-2561

  Misra, Neeraj ^a,b   Van Der Meulen, Edward C ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Conditionally unbiased; Left truncation parameter family; Lower extreme population; Maximum likelihood estimator; Mean squared error; Natural selection rule; Right truncation parameter family; Umvu estimator; Upper extreme population

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644750791     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-100108447     Document Type: Article

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