Admissible minimum bias estimation of response surfaces
Authors:
Donal P. Krouse
Affiliation:
The New Zealand Institute for Industrial Research , Lower Hutt, New ZealandP O Box 31-310
Abstract:
The minimum bias estimator was introduced as an alternative to the least squares estimator for approximating response functions by low-order polynomials. Here we show how to obtain an admissible estimator with smaller squared bias.