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An orthogonally invariant minimax estimator of the covariance matrix of a multivariate normal population (English)
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1984
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In the problem of estimating the covariance matrix of a multivariate normal population \textit{W. James} and \textit{C. Stein} [Estimation with quadratic loss. Proc. 4th Berkeley Sympos. math. statist. Probab. 1, 361- 379 (1961)] obtained a minimax estimator by considering the best invariant estimator with respect to the triangular group. In this paper we propose an orthogonally invariant estimator obtained by averaging the minimax estimator with respect to the invariant measure on the orthogonal group. Explicit forms of the proposed estimator are given for dimensions 2 and 3. Risk is evaluated for various population covariance matrices and it shows a substantial improvement over the minimax estimator for a wide range of population covariance matrices.
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multivariate normal population
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orthogonally invariant estimator
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minimax estimator
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invariant measure on the orthogonal group
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covariance matrices
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