Estimating the Common Mean of Possibly Different Normal Populations: A Simulation Study
可能具有不同方差的正态总体共同均值估计:模拟研究
Relative efficiency of estimators of the common mean of possibly different normal populations N(μ, σ i 2) is investigated empirically. A weighted least squares estimator , with weights based on a modification of minimum norm quadratic unbiased (MINQU) estimators of the σ i 2, is found to be substantially more efficient than the maximum likelihood (ML) estimator of μ when the heterogeneity in the σ i , is small to moderate and the number of sample observations from a…