Shrinkage testimation for the variance of a normal distribution under asymmetric loss function

In present paper, some shrinkage testimators for the variance of a Normal distribution
have been suggested under the invariant form of the LINEX loss function
assuming initiate estimate of is available in the form of a point estimate .
The comparisons of the proposed testimators have been made with the improved
estimator under the squared error loss and the LINEX loss criteria.

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