Optimal shrinkage estimation of variances with applications to microarray data analysis

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 102, Issue 477, 2007, Pages 113-122

  Tong, Tiejun ^a   Wang, Yuedong ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

F like statistic; Gene expression data; Inadmissibility; James Stein shrinkage estimator; Loss function

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847310535     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214506000001266     Document Type: Article

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