Improved estimation of the generalized precision under the squared loss

DOI10.1080/03610929808832251zbMath0917.62049MaRDI QIDQ4223796

Xiaoqian Sun

Publication date: 6 January 1999

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610929808832251

zbMATH Keywords

inadmissibility; best affine equivariant estimator; squared loss; generalized precision

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62H12: Estimation in multivariate analysis

62C15: Admissibility in statistical decision theory

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Bayesian Inference for the Precision Matrix for Scale Mixtures of Normal Distributions, Improved minimax estimation of the bivariate normal precision matrix under the squared loss

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