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Theory and Method

On Bias Reduction in Estimation

W. R. Schucany Statistics Laboratory, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Tex., 75222, USA
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H. L. Gray Department of Mathematics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Tex., 79406, USA
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D. B. Owen Department of Statistics, Southern Methodist University
Pages 524-533 | Published online: 05 Apr 2012

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