On some aspects of estimation of a common mean of two independent normal populations

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 184-193

  Mitra, Pranab K ^a   Sinha, Bimal K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Common mean; Dominated convergence theorem; First order efficient; Fisher information; Importance sampling; Jeffrey's prior; Rao Cramer lower bound; Second order efficient

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748412726     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2005.08.049     Document Type: Article

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