Some applications of the rao distance to shrinkage estimators

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 180-193

  Gruber, Marvin H J ^a  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes estimators; Geodesic distance; Prior and posterior distri butions; Ridge type estimators

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BAYES ESTIMATORS; GEODESIC DISTANCE; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; RIDGE-TYPE ESTIMATORS;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 37749002462     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920701649191     Document Type: Article

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