Comparison of ridge and other shrinkage estimation techniques

Includes bibliographical references. === Shrinkage estimation is an increasingly popular class of biased parameter estimation techniques, vital when the columns of the matrix of independent variables X exhibit dependencies or near dependencies. These dependencies often lead to serious problems in le...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vumbukani, Bokang C
Other Authors: Thiart, Christien
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4364