An application ofG-minimax techniques to the problem of fixed precision estimation of the binomial

DOI10.1080/00949657808810227zbMath0392.62025OpenAlexW2091273568MaRDI QIDQ4174085

Toby J. Mitchell, Timothy A. Derouen

Publication date: 1978

Published in: Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00949657808810227

zbMATH Keywords

Binomial DistributionMaximum Likelihood EstimatorLoss FunctionPrior DistributionsBayes SettingMinimax ProblemSymmetric Beta Functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15)

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