Volume 4 • Issue 1 • PP: 26-28 • 2023
A Study of Shrinkage Estimators for Reliability Function and Variance Properties
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Abstract
A variety of shrinkage methods for estimating unknown parameters has been considered. We derive and compare the shrinkage estimators for the reliability function of the two-parameter exponential distribution. Simulation experiments are used to study the performances of these estimators.
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