Shrinkage estimation of the slope parameters of two parallel regression lines under uncertain prior information

Khan, Shahjahan (2006) Shrinkage estimation of the slope parameters of two parallel regression lines under uncertain prior information. Model Assisted Statistics and Applications, 1 (3). pp. 193-205. ISSN 1574-1699

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Abstract

The estimation of the slope parameter of two linear regression models with normal errors are considered, when it is suspected that the two lines are parallel. The uncertain prior information about the equality of slopes is presented by a null hypothesis and a coefficient of distrust on the null hypothesis is introduced. The unrestricted estimator (UE) based on the sample responses and shrinkage restricted estimator (SRE) as well as shrinkage preliminary test estimator (SPTE) based on the sample responses and prior information are defined. The
relative performances of the UE, SRE and SPTE are investigated based on the analysis of the bias, quadratic bias and quadratic risk functions. An example based on a health study data is used to illustrate the method. The SPTE dominates other two estimators if the coefficient of distrust is not far from 0 and the difference between the population slopes is small.

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Item Type:	Article (Commonwealth Reporting Category C)
Refereed:	Yes
Item Status:	Live Archive
Additional Information:	Author's version deposited in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.
Faculty / Department / School:	Historic - Faculty of Sciences - Department of Maths and Computing
Date Deposited:	11 Oct 2007 00:50
Last Modified:	02 May 2017 00:35
Uncontrolled Keywords:	non-sample uncertain prior information; coefficient of distrust; maximum likelihood; shrinkage restricted and preliminary test estimators; analytical and graphical analysis; health study; bias and quadratic risk
Fields of Research :	01 Mathematical Sciences > 0104 Statistics > 010405 Statistical Theory 01 Mathematical Sciences > 0104 Statistics > 010401 Applied Statistics
URI:	http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/1706

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