Developments in decision-theoretic variance estimation. With comments and a rejoinder by the authors

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Publication:1596014

DOI10.1214/ss/1177012263zbMath0955.62529OpenAlexW1491573855MaRDI QIDQ1596014

George Casella, Jon M. Maatta

Publication date: 7 February 2001

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/ss/1177012263




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