Minimax property of stein's estimator |
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Authors: | Khursheed Alam James S. Hawkes |
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Affiliation: | Clemson University , Clemson, S. C |
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Abstract: | Stein's estimator and some other estimators of the mean of a K-variate normal distribution are known to dominate the maximum likelihood estimator under quadratic loss for K > 3, and are therefore minimax. In this paper it is shown that the minimax property of Stein's rule is preserved with respect to a generalized loss function. |
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Keywords: | maximum likelihood minimax quadratic loss |
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