2nd Edition

Empirical Bayes Methods with Applications

By J.S. Maritz Copyright 1989
296 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

296 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

The second edition of Empirical Bayes Methods details are provided of the derivation and the performance of empirical Bayes rules for a variety of special models. Attention is given to the problem of assessing the goodness of an empirical Bayes estimator for a given set of prior data. A chapter is devoted to a discussion of alternatives to the empirical Bayes approach and there is also a chapter... Read more
1. Introduction to Bayes and Empirical Bayes methods 2. Estimation of the Prior Distribution 3. Empirical Bayes Point Estimation 4. Empirical Bayes Point Estimation: Vector parameters 5. Testing of Hypotheses 6. Bayes and Empirical Bayes interval Estimation 7. Alternatives to Empirical Bayes 8. Applications of EB Methods

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J.S. Maritz