A note on the maximum likelihood estimators for multivariate normal distribution with monotone data

1995 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 1377-1382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hironori Fujisawa
Keyword(s):  
Maximum Likelihood ◽  
Normal Distribution ◽  
Multivariate Normal Distribution ◽  
Maximum Likelihood Estimators ◽  
Multivariate Normal ◽  
Monotone Data

Estimators which are Uniformly Better than the James-Stein Estimator

1997 ◽  
Vol 47 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 167-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nabendu Pal ◽  
Jyh-Jiuan Lin
Keyword(s):  
Maximum Likelihood ◽  
Normal Distribution ◽  
Maximum Likelihood Estimator ◽  
Multivariate Normal Distribution ◽  
Multivariate Normal ◽  
Likelihood Estimator ◽  
Mean Estimation ◽  
Stein Estimator ◽  
Mean Vector ◽  
Better Than

Assume i.i.d. observations are available from a p-dimensional multivariate normal distribution with an unknown mean vector μ and an unknown p .d. diaper- . sion matrix ∑. Here we address the problem of mean estimation in a decision theoretic setup. It is well known that the unbiased as well as the maximum likelihood estimator of μ is inadmissible when p ≤ 3 and is dominated by the famous James-Stein estimator (JSE). There are a few estimators which are better than the JSE reported in the literature, but in this paper we derive wide classes of estimators uniformly better than the JSE. We use some of these estimators for further risk study.

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