The poisson compound decision problem revisited

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 108, Issue 502, 2013, Pages 741-749

  Brown, Lawrence D ^a   Greenshtein, Eitan ^b   Ritov, Ya'acov ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b International Relations and Statistical Coordination Department   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cross validation; Empirical bayes; NPMLE; Robbins

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890093827     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2013.771582     Document Type: Article

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