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Rates of convergence in the sequence-compound squared-distance loss estimation and linear-loss two-action problems for a family of scale parameter exponential distributions

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Research partially supported by the National Science Foundation, Grant No. GP-23480. This paper is based on part of author's dissertation at Michigan State University.

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Susarla, V. Rates of convergence in the sequence-compound squared-distance loss estimation and linear-loss two-action problems for a family of scale parameter exponential distributions. Ann Inst Stat Math 26, 87–102 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02479805

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