This paper builds on a simple unified representation of shrinkage Bayes estimators based on hierarchical Normal-Gamma priors. Various popular penalized least squares estimators for shrinkage and selection in regression models can be recovered using this single hierarchical Bayes formulation. Using 129 U.S. macroeconomic quarterly variables for the period 1959 – 2010 I exhaustively evaluate the ...

In this paper, on the basis of a doubly censored sample and in a Bayesian framework, the problem of estimating the mean lifetime, hazard rate, and survival function of the exponential lifetime model is addressed. Bayes estimators under squared-error loss functions are obtained in closed forms. Highest posterior density (HPD) estimators and credible intervals are computed using iterative methods...

The Reverse Stein Effect is identified and illustrated: A statistician who shrinks his/her data toward a point chosen without reliable knowledge about the underlying value of the parameter to be estimated but based instead upon the observed data will not be protected by the minimax property of shrinkage estimators such a" that of James and Stein, but instead will likely incur a greater error th...

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...

Estimators of the reliability function in a GLM (generalized life model) are considered. The class of the GLM includes (among others) the Weibull, Pareto, Beta, Gompertz, and Rayleigh distribution. A proper general prior density and the predictive function for general class of distribution proposed by Al-Hussaini [1] are used to obtain the exact estimate. Also, the Bayes estimates relative to s...

Bayesian methods based on hierarchical mixture models have demonstrated excellent mean squared error properties in constructing data dependent shrinkage estimators in wavelets, however, subjective elicitation of the hyperparameters is challenging. In this chapter we use an Empirical Bayes approach to estimate the hyperparameters for each level of the wavelet decomposition, bypassing the usual d...

• In the present paper we study the performance of the Bayes Shrinkage estimators for the scale parameter of the Weibull distribution under the squared error loss and the LINEX loss functions in the presence of a prior point information of the scale parameter when Type-II censored data are available. The properties of the minimax estimators are also discussed. Key-Words: • Bayes shrinkage estim...

In this paper, we propse Bayes estimators of the parameters of Marshall Olkin extended exponential distribution (MOEED) introduced by Marshall-Olkin [2] for complete sample under squared error loss function (SELF). We have used different approximation techniques to obtain the Bayes estimate of the parameters. A Monte Carlo simulation study is carried out to compare the performance of proposed e...