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Article
Admissible Estimators for the Total of a Stratified Population That Employ Prior Information
Annals of Statistics
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
1-1-1984
DOI
10.1214/aos/1176346514
Abstract
We consider the problem of the estimation of the total of a stratified finite population. For two levels of prior knowledge about the stratification, we provide Bayes and pseudo-Bayes estimators that make use of this prior knowledge in sensible ways. We then note that admissibility results can be established for these estimators using the techniques of Meeden and Ghosh (1982, 1983) and indicate some possible natural extensions of the present work.
Copyright Owner
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Copyright Date
1984
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
Stephen B. Vardeman and Glen Meeden. "Admissible Estimators for the Total of a Stratified Population That Employ Prior Information" Annals of Statistics Vol. 12 Iss. 2 (1984) p. 675 - 684 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/stephen_vardeman/4/
This article is from The Annals of Statistics 12 (1984): 675, doi: 10.1214/aos/1176346514. Posted with permission.