this article examines statistical inference for  where and are independent but not identically distributed pareto of the first kind (pareto (i)) random variables with same scale parameter but different shape parameters. the maximum likelihood, uniformly minimum variance unbiased and bayes estimators with gamma prior are used for this purpose. simulation studies which compare the estimators are ...

Abstract In this paper, the estimation of R=Pr(Y < Y), when X and Y are two generalized inverted exponential distributions with different parameters is considered. The maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of R and its asymptotic distribution are obtained. Exact and asymptotic confidence intervals of R are constructed using both exact and asymptotic distributions. Assuming that the common scale pa...

The main purpose of this article is to study the wavelet shrinkage method from a Bayesian viewpoint. Nonparametric mixed-effects models are proposed and used for interpretation of the Bayesian structure. Bayes and empirical Bayes estimation are discussed. The latter is shown to have the Gauss-Markov type optimality (i.e., BLUP), to be equivalent to a method of regularization estimator (MORE), a...

In this paper, we consider the maximum likelihood (ML) and Bayes estimation of the parameters of the generalized exponential distribution based on progressive first failure censored samples. We also consider the problem of predicting an independent future order statistics from the same distribution. However, since Bayes estimator do not exist in an explicit form for the parameters, Markov Chain...

We consider the problem of estimating the scale parameter &beta of a rescaled F-distribution when &beta has a lower bounded constraint of the form &beta&gea, under the entropy loss function. An admissible minimax estimator of the scale parameter &beta, which is the pointwise limit of a sequence of Bayes estimators, is given. Also in the class of truncated linear estimators, the admissible estim...

Consider an experiment yielding an observable random quantity X whose distribution Fθ depends on a parameter θ with θ being distributed according to some distribution G0. We study the Bayesian estimation problem of θ under squared error loss function based on X, as well as some additional data available from other similar experiments according to an empirical Bayes structure. In a recent paper,...

In the estimation of a multivariate normal mean, it is shown that the problem of deriving shrinkage estimators improving on the maximum likelihood estimator can be reduced to that of solving an integral inequality. The integral inequality not only provides a more general condition than a conventional differential inequality studied in the literature, but also handles non-differentiable or disco...

This paper provides a general technique for lower bounding the Bayes risk of statistical estimation, applicable to arbitrary loss functions and arbitrary prior distributions. A lower bound on the Bayes risk not only serves as a lower bound on the minimax risk, but also characterizes the fundamental limit of any estimator given the prior knowledge. Our bounds are based on the notion of f -inform...

We analyze the relationship between a Minimum Description Length (MDL) estimator (posterior mode) and a Bayes estimator for exponential families. We show the following results concerning these estimators: a) Both the Bayes estimator with Jeffreys prior and the MDL estimator with the uniform prior with respect to the expectation parameter are nearly equivalent to a bias-corrected maximum-likelih...