SIMULTANEOUS ESTIMATION OF GAMMA SCALE PARAMETER UNDER ENTROPY LOSS:BAYESIAN APPROACH

Let $X_1, ....$X_P be p($\geq$2) independent random variables, where each X1 has a gamma distribution with $k_i and ${\heta}_i$. The problem is to simultaneously estimate p gammar parameters ${\heta}_i$ under entropy loss where the parameters are believed priori. Hierarchical bayes(HB) and empirical bayes(EB) estimators are investigated. Next computer simulation is studied to compute the risk percentage improvement of the HB, EB and the estimator of Dey et al.(1987) compared to MVUE of ${\heta}$.