Testimator

<h2 id="history">History</h2>
<p>An early use of the term "testimator" way made by Brewster & Zidek (1974).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a>
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<h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2>
<ul><li>S. M. Kanbur, C. Ngeow, A. Nanthakumar and R. Stevens (2007). "Investigations of the Nonlinear LMC Cepheid Period‐Luminosity Relation with Testimator and Schwarz Information Criterion Methods", Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 119, 512–522 <a href="http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/519290">online</a></li>
<li>Mezbahur Rahman, Gokhale, D.V. (1996) "Testimation in Regression Parameter Estimation", Biometrical Journal, 38 (7), 809–817 <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bimj.4710380706">online</a></li>
<li>Abramovich, F., Grinshtein, V., Pensky, M. (2007) "On optimality of Bayesian testimation in the normal means problem", <a href="/facts/Annals_of_Statistics/frNL5W9E">Annals of Statistics</a>, 35, 2261–2286 <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053607000000226">online</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Adke, S.R., Waikar, V.B. & Schurmann, F.J. (1987). "A two stage shrinkage testimator for the mean of an exponential distribution". Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 16 (6), 1821-1834. Retrieved April 16, 2009, from http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/03610928708829474 (restricted access) <a href="/wiki/Communications_in_Statistics#Communications_in_Statistics_–_Simulation_and_Computation" target="_blank">/wiki/Communications_in_Statistics#Communications_in_Statistics_–_Simulation_and_Computation</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Brewster, J.F., Zidek, J.V.(1974) "Improving on Equivariant Estimators". Annals of Statistics, 2 (1), 21–38 <a href="/wiki/Annals_of_Statistics" target="_blank">/wiki/Annals_of_Statistics</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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