Abstract

The Liu-type estimator has been consistently demonstrated to be an attractive shrinkage method to reduce the effect of multicollinearity problem. It is known that multicollinearity affects the variance of the maximum likelihood estimator negatively in gamma regression model. Therefore, an almost unbiased Liu-type estimator together with a modified version of it is proposed to overcome the multicollinearity problem. The performance of the new estimators is investigated both theoretically and numerically via a Monte Carlo simulation experiment and a real data illustration. Based on the results, it is observed that the proposed estimators can bring significant improvement relative to other competitor estimators.

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