Shrinkage confidence intervals for the normal mean: Using a guess for greater efficiency

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 623-637

  Willink, Robin ^a  

^a CALLAGHAN INNOVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Confidence coefficient; Efficiency; Information; Interval estimation; Point estimation; Shrinkage estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 59149090877     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.5550360409     Document Type: Article

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