• DocumentCode
    1350203
  • Title

    Shrinkage Estimation Of The Exponential Scale Parameter

  • Author

    Pandey, B.N.

  • Author_Institution
    Lecturer in Statistics; Department of Mathematics & Statistics; Faculty of Science; Banaras Hindu University; Varanasi - 221 005 INDIA.
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1983
  • fDate
    6/1/1983 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    203
  • Lastpage
    205
  • Abstract
    This paper proposes some shrunken estimators for the scale parameter of an exponential distribution and compares them with the minimum mean squared error (MSE) estimator. The shrunken estimators have smaller MSE than the minimum MSE estimator when the prior estimate is good.
  • Keywords
    Exponential distribution; Maximum likelihood estimation; Mean square error methods; Parameter estimation; System testing; Exponential distribution; Mean square error; Preliminary test estimator; Preliminary test shrunken estimator; Scale parameter; Shrunken estimator;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1983.5221534
  • Filename
    5221534