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
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