Title :
A class of shrinkage estimators for the scale parameter of the exponential distribution
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Stat., Sardar Patel Univ., Vallabh Vidyanagar, India
fDate :
4/1/1991 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A class of shrinkage estimators for the scale parameter of the exponential distribution is suggested. It includes some previously published estimators as special cases. An analogous estimator based on censored samples is considered. An example is given
Keywords :
parameter estimation; reliability theory; statistical analysis; analogous estimator; censored samples; exponential distribution; reliability theory; scale parameter; shrinkage estimators; Analysis of variance; Error analysis; Exponential distribution; Maximum likelihood estimation; Mean square error methods; Probability; Reliability theory; State estimation; Statistical analysis; Statistical distributions;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
