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Let πi, i = 1, 2, ..., k be k independent exponential populations with different unknown location parameters θi, i = 1, 2, ..., k and common known scale parameter σ. Let Y idenote the smallest observation based on a random sample of size n from the i-th population. Suppose a subset of the given k populations is selected using the subset selection procedure according to which the population πi, is selected iff Y i ≥ Y (1) - d, where Y (1) is the largest of the Y i’s and d is some suitable constant. The estimation of the location parameters associated with the selected populations is considered for the squared error loss. It is observed that the natural estimator dominates the unbiased estimator. It is also shown that the natural estimator itself is inadmissible and a class of improved estimators that dominate the natural estimator is obtained. The improved estimators are consistent and their risks are shown to be O(kn -2). As a special case, we obtain the corresponding results for the estimation of θ(1), the parameter associated with Y (1).
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Vellaisamy, P., Punnen, A.P. Improved estimators for the selected location parameters. Statistical Papers 43, 291–299 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00362-002-0102-2
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Key words and Phrases
- Subset selection
- exponential populations
- simultaneous estimation after selection
- natural estimator
- the unbiased estimator
- improved estimators