Inadmissibility of the Best Invariant Estimator of Extreme Quantiles of the Normal Law Under Squared Error Loss
Zidek, J. V.
Ann. Math. Statist., Tome 40 (1969) no. 6, p. 1801-1808 / Harvested from Project Euclid
Suppose that independent normally distributed random vectors, $X^{n\times1}$ and $Y^{k\times1}$, are observed with $E(X) = 0, E(Y) = \mu, \operatorname{Cov}(X) = \sigma^2I$, and $\operatorname{Cov}(Y) = \sigma^2I$. It is known [2, 5] that the best invariant estimator of $\mu$ is admissible if $k \leqq 2$ and inadmissible if $k > 2$. It is also known [1, 7] that the best invariant estimator of $\sigma$ is inadmissible. In this paper, these results are extended to show that the best invariant estimator of $\theta = A\mu + \eta\sigma$, for a given matrix $A$ and a given vector $\eta$, is inadmissible if $|\eta|$ is sufficiently large (when $k = 1, A = 1, \theta$ is a quantile).
Publié le : 1969-10-14
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     author = {Zidek, J. V.},
     title = {Inadmissibility of the Best Invariant Estimator of Extreme Quantiles of the Normal Law Under Squared Error Loss},
     journal = {Ann. Math. Statist.},
     volume = {40},
     number = {6},
     year = {1969},
     pages = { 1801-1808},
     language = {en},
     url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/1177697393}
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Zidek, J. V. Inadmissibility of the Best Invariant Estimator of Extreme Quantiles of the Normal Law Under Squared Error Loss. Ann. Math. Statist., Tome 40 (1969) no. 6, pp.  1801-1808. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1177697393/