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The problem of estimating location (scale) parameters $\theta_1$ and $\theta_2$ of two distributions when the ordering between them is known apriori (say, $\theta_1\leq \theta_2$) has been extensively studied in the literature. Many of…
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In the present work, we have investigated the problem of estimating parameters of several exponential distributions with ordered scale parameters under the linex loss function. We have considered estimating ordered scale parameters when the…
We consider component-wise estimation of order restricted location/scale parameters $\theta_1$ and $\theta_2$ ($\theta_1\leq \theta_2$) of a general bivariate distribution under the squared error loss function. To find improvements over the…
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The problem of simultaneous estimation of location/scale parameters $\theta_1$ and $\theta_2$ of a general bivariate location/scale model, when the ordering between the parameters is known apriori (say, $\theta_1\leq \theta_2$), has been…
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