Accurate traffic classification is the keystone of numerous network activities. Our work capitalises on hand-classified network data, used as input to a supervised Bayes estimator. We illustrate the high level of accuracy achieved with a supervised Naı̈ve Bayes estimator; with the simplest estimator we are able to achieve better than 83% accuracy on both a per-byte and a per-packet basis.

We propose a linear Bayes estimator of the cumulative hazard of a survival distribution, based on iid survival times, possibly right censored and left truncated. The resulting estimator is recognized as an exact Bayes estimator under more restrictive model assumptions and verified to have the minimax property.

 Minimax estimation problems with restricted parameter space reached increasing interest within the last two decades Some authors derived minimax and admissible estimators of bounded parameters under squared error loss and scale invariant squared error loss In some truncated estimation problems the most natural estimator to be considered is the truncated version of a classic...

We investigate the theoretical performance of Bayes factor estimators in wavelet regression models with independent and identically distributed errors that are not necessarily normally distributed. We compare these estimators in terms of their frequentist optimality in Besov spaces for a wide variety of error and prior distributions. Furthermore, we provide sufficient conditions that determine ...

In this paper, we construct a point estimator when assuming unequal and unknown variances by using the empirical Bayes approach in the classical normal mean problem. The proposed estimator shrinks both means and variances, and is thus called the double shrinkage estimator. Extensive numerical studies indicate that the double shrinkage estimator has lower Bayes risk than the estimator which shri...

In this paper, we consider the estimation of the unknown parameter of the scaled logistic distribution on the basis of record values. The maximum likelihood method does not provide an explicit estimator for the scale parameter. In this article, we present a simple method of deriving an explicit estimator by approximating the likelihood function. Bayes estimator is obtained using importance samp...

A neglected aspect of the otherwise fairly well developed Bayesian analysis of cointegration is the point estimation of the cointegration space. It is pointed out here that, due to the well known non-identification of the cointegration vectors, the parameter space is not an inner product space and conventional Bayes estimators therefore stand without their usual decision theoretic foundation. W...

In this paper, using empirical Bayes (EB) approach, we construct Bayes estimator and empirical Bayes estimator for the subordinate function of parameter of the Pareto distribution families under the condition that the present sample and the past samples are randomly censored from the right by another variable with an unknown distribution, and discusses Bayes estimate and experience Bayes estima...

Let X be a random variable from a normal distribution with unknown mean θ and known variance σ2. In many practical situations, θ is known in advance to lie in an interval, say [−m,m], for some m > 0. As the usual estimator of θ, i.e., X under the LINEX loss function is inadmissible, finding some competitors for X becomes worthwhile. The only study in the literature considered the problem of min...

In this study, we study the empirical Bayes estimation of the parameter of the exponential distribution. In the empirical Bayes procedure, we employ the non-parameter polynomial density estimator to the estimation of the unknown marginal probability density function, instead of estimating the unknown prior probability density function of the parameter. Empirical Bayes estimators are derived for...