Determination of Varying Group Sizes for Pooling Procedure

Table 1

The performance of estimators using different pooling procedures.

(, )
		Mean	MSE	Mean	MSE	Mean	MSE	Mean	MSE
		XN (2, 1.5)
(0.99, 0.99)	PSV	−3.003	0.020	0.401	0.002	−3.001	0.043	0.401	0.004
	PSF()	−3.002	0.010	0.402	0.002	−3.006	0.022	0.403	0.004
	PSF(5)	−3.007	0.134	0.402	0.010	−3.018	0.289	0.405	0.021
	PSF(10)	−3.006	0.021	0.403	0.003	−3.009	0.042	0.403	0.005
(0.95, 0.95)	PSV	−3.002	0.026	0.402	0.003	−2.999	0.050	0.401	0.005
	PSF()	−3.006	0.022	0.403	0.003	−3.009	0.041	0.406	0.006
	PSF(5)	−3.008	0.162	0.403	0.012	−2.997	0.317	0.400	0.023
	PSF(10)	−3.004	0.026	0.403	0.003	−2.998	0.052	0.401	0.006
(0.9, 0.9)	PSV	−3.001	0.034	0.402	0.003	−2.991	0.071	0.395	0.007
	PSF()	−3.004	0.035	0.404	0.004	−3.007	0.074	0.404	0.010
	PSF(5)	−2.974	0.225	0.394	0.016	−2.993	0.418	0.399	0.031
	PSF(10)	−3.004	0.038	0.404	0.005	−3.008	0.077	0.404	0.010
X ∼ Г (2.5, 0.8)
(0.99, 0.99)	PSV	−2.991	0.041	0.397	0.004	−2.997	0.020	0.399	0.002
	PSF()	−3.006	0.020	0.404	0.003	−3.002	0.010	0.402	0.002
	PSF(5)	−2.973	0.281	0.393	0.020	−3.002	0.136	0.400	0.010
	PSF(10)	−3.002	0.042	0.402	0.005	−3.004	0.021	0.402	0.002
(0.95, 0.95)	PSV	−3.000	0.053	0.401	0.005	−2.998	0.026	0.400	0.003
	PSF()	−3.010	0.041	0.404	0.006	−3.007	0.020	0.404	0.003
	PSF(5)	−3.060	0.324	0.416	0.023	−3.015	0.171	0.405	0.012
	PSF(10)	−3.003	0.053	0.402	0.007	−3.006	0.027	0.403	0.003
(0.9, 0.9)	PSV	−2.989	0.072	0.398	0.007	−2.992	0.034	0.399	0.004
	PSF()	−3.017	0.075	0.408	0.010	−3.001	0.033	0.402	0.004
	PSF(5)	−3.012	0.379	0.403	0.028	−2.995	0.198	0.398	0.014
	PSF(10)	−3.018	0.075	0.409	0.010	−3.003	0.035	0.402	0.005