Estimating the Location Parameter of an Exponential Distribution with Known Coefficient of Variation

1982 ◽  
Vol 31 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 137-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malay Ghosh ◽  
Ahmad Razmpour

The plper considers estimation of the location parameter of an exponential distribution with known coefficient of variation. Several estimators including the maximum likelihood estimator and the best scale invariant estimator are proposed and compared.

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hojatollah Zakerzadeh ◽  
Ali Akbar Jafari ◽  
Mahdieh Karimi

<p>This paper studies shrinkage estimation after the preliminary test for the parameters of exponential distribution based on record values. The optimal value of shrinkage coefficients is also obtained based on the minimax regret criterion. The maximum likelihood, pre-test, and shrinkage estimators are compared using a simulation study. The results to estimate the scale parameter show that the optimal shrinkage estimator is better than the maximum likelihood estimator in all cases, and when the prior guess is near the true value, the pre-test estimator is better than shrinkage estimator. The results to estimate the location parameter show that the optimal shrinkage estimator is better than maximum likelihood estimator when a prior guess is close<br />to the true value. All estimators are illustrated by a numerical example.</p>


Author(s):  
Hazim Mansour Gorgees ◽  
Bushra Abdualrasool Ali ◽  
Raghad Ibrahim Kathum

     In this paper, the maximum likelihood estimator and the Bayes estimator of the reliability function for negative exponential distribution has been derived, then a Monte –Carlo simulation technique was employed to compare the performance of such estimators. The integral mean square error (IMSE) was used as a criterion for this comparison. The simulation results displayed that the Bayes estimator performed better than the maximum likelihood estimator for different samples sizes.


2003 ◽  
Vol 54 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 17-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huizhen Guo ◽  
Nabendu Pal

This paper deals with estimation of θ when iid (independent and identically distributed) observations are available from a N( θ, cθ2) distribution where c > 0 is assumed to be known. Using the equivariance principle under the group of scale and direction transformations we first characterize the class of equivariant estimators of θ. We then investigate a few equivariant estimators, including the maximum likelihood estimator, in terms of standardized bias and standardized mean squared error.


2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milan Jovanovic ◽  
Vesna Rajic

In this paper, we estimate probability P{X < Y} when X and Y are two independent random variables from gamma and exponential distribution, respectively. We obtain maximum likelihood estimator and its asymptotic distribution. We perform some simulation study.


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