Admissible minimax estimators of a mean vector of scale mixtures of multivariate normal distributions

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 274-283

  Maruyama, Yuzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Admissible; Minimax; Scale mixtures of multivariate normal distributions; The FKG inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037299584     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-259X(02)00035-0     Document Type: Review

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