Minimum Message Length shrinkage estimation

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 79, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1155-1161

  Makalic, Enes ^a   Schmidt, Daniel F ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 63549087538     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2008.12.021     Document Type: Article

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