Parametric empirical Bayes inference: Theory and applications

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 78, Issue 381, 1983, Pages 47-55

  Morris, Carl N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical Bayes; Empirical Bayes confidence intervals; Parametric empirical Bayes; Stein s estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 84950432453     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1983.10477920     Document Type: Article

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