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International Conference on Statistics, Combinatorics and Related Areas and the Eighth International Conference of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics
December 19-21, 2001
School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong
Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Organizers
Satya N. Mishra (University of South Alabama), Chandra M. Gulati (University of Wollongong)

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Bayes Estimator for Scale Parameter of Normal Distribution Utilizing Point Guess of Parameter
by
Anil Kumar
Department of Statistics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221 005, INDIA
Coauthors: Umesh Singh and S. K. Upadhyay(Department of Statistics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221 005, INDIA)

This paper deals with the problem of estimation for scale parameter in the presence of a point guess values of parameter. It attempts to justify the use of Bayes estimator as an alternative to Shrinkage estimator. Bayes estimator for scale parameter of normal distributionhas been obtained considering prior distribution which utilizes the knowledge of a point guess of the parameter. The proposed Bayes estimator is compared with the corresponding maximum likihood estimator and ordinary Shrinkage estimator under squared error loss using a simulation result.

Date received: September 17, 2001

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