Properties of preliminary test estimators and shrinkage estimators for evaluating multiple exposures-application to questionnaire data from the 'Study of nevi in children'

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 619-632

  Satagopan, Jaya M ^a   Zhou, Qin ^a   Oliveria, Susan A ^a   Dusza, Stephen W ^a   Weinstock, Martin A ^b   Berwick, Marianne ^c   Halpern, Allan C ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical Bayes methods; Exchangeability; Minimum risk; Random effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960834636     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2011.00762.x     Document Type: Article

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