Minimum volume confidence regions for a multivariate normal mean vector

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 655-670

  Efron, Bradley ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fisher von Mises distribution; James Stein estimator; Non central ; Scheff intervals

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746211338     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: 14679868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2006.00560.x     Document Type: Article

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