COMMUNICATIONS IN STATISTICS-THEORY AND METHODS, cilt.30, sa.12, ss.2699-2705, 2001 (SCI-Expanded)
In this paper we introduce a class of estimators which includes the ordinary least squares (OLS), the principal components regression (PCR) and the Liu estimator (1). In particular. we show that our new estimator is superior, in the scalar mean-squared error (mse) sense, to the Liu estimator, to the OLS estimator and to the PCR estimator.