Maximum likelihood estimation of the parameters of a statistical model involves maximizing the likelihood or, equivalently, the log likelihood with respect to the parameters. The parameter values at ...

There are collected in this paper several observations and results more or less loosely related by their connections with the subject mentioned in the title. The discussion moves from the general to ...

The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Mar., 1984), pp. 322-335 (14 pages) Simultaneous estimation of p(p ≥ 3) location parameters are considered under quadratic loss. Explicit estimators which ...

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