Shrinkage estimation in multilevel normal models

Statistical Science

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 115-134

  Morris, Carl N ^a   Lysy, Martin ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical bayes; Hierarchical model; Model II evaluations; Stein s harmonic prior; Unequal variances

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879174258     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/11-STS363     Document Type: Article

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