Families of minimax estimators of the mean of a multivariate normal distribution

DOI10.1214/aos/1176343344zbMath0322.62010OpenAlexW2073837511MaRDI QIDQ1223884

Efron, Bradley, Carl N. Morris

Publication date: 1976

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176343344

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multivariate analysis (62H99) Point estimation (62F10) Statistical decision theory (62C99) Admissibility in statistical decision theory (62C15)

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