Admissibility and minimaxity of Bayes estimators for a normal mean matrix

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 99, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2251-2264

  Tsukuma, Hisayuki ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

62C10; 62C15; 62C20; 62J07; Admissibility; Bayes estimation; Inadmissibility; Isotonic regression; Minimaxity; Order statistic; primary; Quadratic loss; secondary; Shrinkage estimator; Simultaneous estimation; Singular value decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 54049093683     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2008.02.012     Document Type: Article

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