Strawderman, William E.; Rukhin, Andrew L. - In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B 72 (2010) 2, pp. 219-234
Several procedures that are designed to reduce nonconformity in interlaboratory studies by shrinking data towards a consensus weighted mean are suggested. Some of them are shown to have a smaller quadratic risk than the vector sample means. Shrinkage towards a weighted mean in a random-effects...