On improved estimation of a gamma shape parameter

DOI10.1080/02331888.2014.915842zbMath1396.62035OpenAlexW2033728844MaRDI QIDQ5263968

Nabendu Pal, Hidekazu Tanaka, Wooi Khai Lim

Publication date: 20 July 2015

Published in: Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/02331888.2014.915842

zbMATH Keywords

second-order admissibility (inadmissibility)gamma shape parametermodified maximum-likelihood estimator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Admissibility in statistical decision theory (62C15)

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