Loss functions for estimation of extrema with an application to disease mapping

DOI10.2307/3316085zbMath1042.62029OpenAlexW2084293180WikidataQ104697506 ScholiaQ104697506MaRDI QIDQ4470642

Deanne L. Wright, Noel Cressie, Hal S. Stern

Publication date: 15 June 2004

Published in: Canadian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/fb2fe399cc8fa20d6276c2362c845aec27ea261f

zbMATH Keywords

squared error lossrelative riskposterior distributionBayes estimateweighted ranks squared error loss

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Point estimation (62F10) Bayesian inference (62F15) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10)

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