Global, parameterwise and joint shrinkage factor estimation

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 69, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Dunkler, Daniela ^a   Sauerbrei, Willi ^b   Heinze, Georg ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Global shrinkage; Parameterwise shrinkage; Prediction; R package; Regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961262651     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v069.i08     Document Type: Article

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