JSM Activity #406

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Activity ID:  406
Title
Recent Advances in Estimation
Date / Time / Room Sponsor Type
08/15/2002
10:30 AM - 12:20 PM
Room: H-Concourse B 		ENAR, General Methodology Contributed
Organizer: n/a
Chair: Shu-Hui Lin, Chiao-Tung University
Discussant:  
Floor Discussion 12:05 PM
Description

Topics include Rao-Cramer type inequalities for MSE of prediction, an empirical Bayes procedure to estimate the prevalence of rare traits, further theory on the distribution of the sample correlation coefficient and the Fisher transform, a new multivariate c-characteristic function, some results on the positivity of linear combinations of three order statistics as estimators of scale, and a new general estimating function that involves not only the parameters of interest but also some nuisance parameters.
  300583  By:  Tapan K. Nayak 10:35 AM 08/15/2002
Rao-Cramer Type Inequalities for Mean Squared Error of Prediction

  300649  By:  Joshua M. Tebbs 10:50 AM 08/15/2002
Group Testing with Small-Sized Pools

  301389  By:  Salma K. Marani 11:05 AM 08/15/2002
Moments of the Fisher Transform: Applications Using Small Samples

  300856  By:  Thomas J. Jiang 11:20 AM 08/15/2002
On a New Characteristic Function

  300929  By:  Dale  Umbach 11:35 AM 08/15/2002
On the Positivity of Linear Combinations of Three Order Statistics as Estimators of Scale

  301046  By:  Molin  Wang 11:50 AM 08/15/2002
Orthogonal Second-order Locally Ancillary Estimating Function

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