In this paper, the idea of generalized maximum entropy estimation approach (Golan et al. 1996) is used to fit the general linear measurement error model. A Monte Carlo comparison is made with the classical maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) method. The results showed that, the GME is outperformed the MLE estimators in terms of mean squared error. A real data analysis is also presented.
Measurement Error Model, Generalized Maximum Entropy, Maximum Likelihood
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