A characterization of the multivariate normal distribution and some remarks on linear estimators (Q1097607)

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    A characterization of the multivariate normal distribution and some remarks on linear estimators
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4034874

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      A characterization of the multivariate normal distribution and some remarks on linear estimators (English)
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      1987
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      A characterization of the multivariate normal distribution is given. The characterization is essentially based on spherical symmetry and linearity of the posterior mean of a translation parameter vector. In addition some remarks concerning admissibility of linear estimators are made.
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      Bayes estimator
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      infinite divisibility
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      characterization
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      multivariate normal distribution
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      spherical symmetry
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      linearity
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      posterior mean
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      translation parameter vector
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      admissibility of linear estimators
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