Simultaneous estimation following subset selection of binomial populations

Riyadh Al-mosawi

METRON, 2012, vol. 70, issue 1, 59-69

Abstract: Let π 1 , …, π p be p (p ≥2) independent populations with π i being binomial bin(l, θ) with an unknown parameter θ i i=1, …, p. Suppose independent random samples of sizes n 1 , …, n p are drawn from the populations π 1 , …, π p , respectively, and let $${erline X}_i=X_i/n_i$$, where $$X_{i}={Sigma^{ni}_{j=1}}X_{ij},i=1,$$ …, P. We call the population associated with the largest of θ i ’s the best population. Suppose a population is selected using the Gupta’s (Gupta, S. S. (1965). On some multiple decision(selection and ranking) rules. Technometrics 7, 225–245) subset selection procedure. In this paper, we consider simultaneous estimation of the parameters of the selected populations. It is shown that neither the unbiased estimator nor the riskunbiased estimator (corresponding to the normalized squared error loss function) exists based on a single-stage sample. When additional observations are available from the selected populations, we derive an unbiased and risk-unbiased estimators for the selected subset and also prove that the natural estimators are positively biased. Finally, the bias and the risk of the natural, unbiased and risk-unbiased estimators are computed using Monte-Carlo simulation method. Copyright Sapienza Università di Roma 2012

Keywords: Binomial populations; Selected subset; Simultaneous estimation follow-ing subset selection; Risk-unbiasedness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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