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Bayes compound and empirical Bayes estimation of the mean of a Gaussian distribution on a Hilbert space

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  • Majumdar, Suman

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The problem of finding admissible and asymptotically optimal (in the sense of Robbins) compound and empirical Bayes rules is investigated, when the component problem is estimation of the mean of a Gaussian distribution (with a known one-to-one covariance C) on a real separable infinite dimensional Hilbert space H under weighted Squared-Error-Loss. The parameter set is restricted to be a compact subset of the Hilbert space isomorphic to H via C1/2. We note that all Bayes compound estimators in our problem are admissible. Our main result is that those Bayes versus a mixture of i.i.d. priors on the compound parameter are a.o. if the mixing hyperprior has full support. The same result holds in the empirical Bayes formulation as well.

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  • Majumdar, Suman, 1994. "Bayes compound and empirical Bayes estimation of the mean of a Gaussian distribution on a Hilbert space," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 48(1), pages 87-106, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jmvana:v:48:y:1994:i:1:p:87-106
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