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Minimax estimation of location parameters for certain spherically symmetric distributions

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Families of minimax estimators are found for the location parameters of a p-variate distribution of the form , where G(·) is a known c.d.f. on (0, [infinity]), p >= 3 and the loss is sum of squared errors. The estimators are of the form (1 - ar(X'X)/E0(1/X'X)X'X)X where 0

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  • Strawderman, William E., 1974. "Minimax estimation of location parameters for certain spherically symmetric distributions," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 4(3), pages 255-264, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jmvana:v:4:y:1974:i:3:p:255-264
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    1. Kubokawa, Tatsuya & Marchand, Éric & Strawderman, William E., 2015. "On improved shrinkage estimators for concave loss," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 241-246.
    2. Fourdrinier, Dominique & Strawderman, William E., 2008. "A unified and generalized set of shrinkage bounds on minimax Stein estimates," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 99(10), pages 2221-2233, November.
    3. Dominique Fourdrinier & Othmane Kortbi & William Strawderman, 2014. "Generalized Bayes minimax estimators of location vectors for spherically symmetric distributions with residual vector," Metrika: International Journal for Theoretical and Applied Statistics, Springer, vol. 77(2), pages 285-296, February.
    4. Marchand, Éric & Strawderman, William E., 2020. "On shrinkage estimation for balanced loss functions," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 175(C).
    5. Tatsuya Kubokawa & Éric Marchand & William E. Strawderman, 2014. "On Predictive Density Estimation for Location Families under Integrated L 2 and L 1 Losses," CIRJE F-Series CIRJE-F-935, CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo.
    6. Fourdrinier, Dominique & Strawderman, William E., 2008. "Generalized Bayes minimax estimators of location vectors for spherically symmetric distributions," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 99(4), pages 735-750, April.
    7. Dominique Fourdrinier & Tatsuya Kubokawa & William E. Strawderman, 2023. "Shrinkage Estimation of a Location Parameter for a Multivariate Skew Elliptic Distribution," Sankhya A: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Springer;Indian Statistical Institute, vol. 85(1), pages 808-828, February.
    8. Tsukuma, Hisayuki, 2010. "Shrinkage priors for Bayesian estimation of the mean matrix in an elliptically contoured distribution," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 101(6), pages 1483-1492, July.
    9. Dey, Dipak K. & Ghosh, Malay & Strawderman, William E., 1999. "On estimation with balanced loss functions," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 45(2), pages 97-101, November.
    10. Kubokawa, Tatsuya & Marchand, Éric & Strawderman, William E., 2015. "On predictive density estimation for location families under integrated squared error loss," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 142(C), pages 57-74.
    11. Maruyama, Yuzo, 2003. "Admissible minimax estimators of a mean vector of scale mixtures of multivariate normal distributions," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 84(2), pages 274-283, February.
    12. Fourdrinier, Dominique & Kortbi, Othmane & Strawderman, William E., 2008. "Bayes minimax estimators of the mean of a scale mixture of multivariate normal distributions," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 99(1), pages 74-93, January.
    13. Pinelis, Iosif, 2014. "Schur2-concavity properties of Gaussian measures, with applications to hypotheses testing," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 124(C), pages 384-397.
    14. Tatsuya Kubokawa & Éric Marchand & William E. Strawderman, 2014. "On Improved Shrinkage Estimators for Concave Loss," CIRJE F-Series CIRJE-F-936, CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo.

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