A conversation with Larry Brown

DOI10.1214/088342304000000288zbMATH Open1188.01016OpenAlexW2074344866MaRDI QIDQ819965FDOQ819965

Authors: Anirban DasGupta 

Publication date: 4 April 2006

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/088342304000000288

Recommendations

• Larry Brown's work on admissibility
• Borrowing strength: Theory powering applications -- a Festschrift for Lawrence D. Brown. Selected papers based on the presentations at the conference, Philadelphia, PA, USA, December 15--17, 2010.
• Larry Brown's contributions to parametric inference, decision theory and foundations: a survey
• A review of Brown 1971 (in)admissibility results under scale mixtures of Gaussian priors
• Reminiscences of a Statistician

zbMATH Keywords

bootstraprandom walkBayesdecision theorynonparametricfrequentistexponential familyinfinitely divisiblediffusionpriorsequentialadmissibilityminimaxityconditionalinformation inequalityconsultingcensusancillaryM estimate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of statistics (62-03)

Cites Work

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• Interval estimation for a binomial proportion. (With comments and a rejoinder).
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• Robust Estimation of a Location Parameter
• Remarks on Some Nonparametric Estimates of a Density Function
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• Sampling-Based Approaches to Calculating Marginal Densities
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• Estimation with quadratic loss.
• Invariance, Minimax Sequential Estimation, and Continuous Time Processes
• Geometrizing rates of convergence. II
• Bayesian aspects of some nonparametric problems
• The Conditional Level of Student's $t$ Test
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• On the Admissibility of Invariant Estimators of One or More Location Parameters
• Information inequalities for the Bayes risk
• On the Best Obtainable Asymptotic Rates of Convergence in Estimation of a Density Function at a Point
• Minimax risk over hyperrectangles, and implications
• Proper Bayes Minimax Estimators of the Multivariate Normal Mean
• A constrained risk inequality with applications to nonparametric functional estimation
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• A statistical diptych: Admissible inferences -- recurrence of symmetric Markov chains
• The Admissibility of Pitman's Estimator of a Single Location Parameter
• Markov chain conditions for admissibility in estimation problems with quadratic loss
• Admissible Estimators, Recurrent Diffusions, and Insoluble Boundary Value Problems
• Admissibility results for generalized Bayes estimators of coordinates of a location vector
• Tail minimaxity in location vector problems and its applications
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• Inequalities for multivariate infinitely divisible processes
• Inadmissibility results for generalized Bayes estimators of coordinates of a location vector
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• An Essay on Statistical Decision Theory
• Optimal Policies for a Sequential Decision Process
• A Lower Bound for the Risk in Estimating the Value of a Probability Density
• On the Translation Parameter Problem for Discrete Variables

Cited In (11)

• A conversation with Jim Pitman
• Borrowing strength: Theory powering applications -- a Festschrift for Lawrence D. Brown. Selected papers based on the presentations at the conference, Philadelphia, PA, USA, December 15--17, 2010.
• A conversation with Tom Louis
• A conversation with Ulf Grenander
• A conversation with Colin L. Mallows
• A conversation with Harry Martz
• A conversation with Stephen Portnoy
• A conversation with Lynne Billard
• Bradley Efron: a conversation with good friends
• Larry Brown's work on admissibility
• Larry Brown's contributions to parametric inference, decision theory and foundations: a survey

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