bayesbio (version 1.0.0)

a_hat_mle: Likelihood function of the James-Stein shrinkage factor.

Description

To be used in MLE computation of the James-Stein shrinkage factor.

Usage

a_hat_mle(stat, vars, a_hat)

Arguments

stat

Input statistics to be shrinkage estimated.

vars

Corresponding variances of equal length.

a_hat

Shrinkage intensity to be estimated.

Value

The likelihood of the function given the parameters.

References

http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1331729986