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March, 1993 Admissibility Results in Loss Estimation
Chitra Lele
Ann. Statist. 21(1): 378-390 (March, 1993). DOI: 10.1214/aos/1176349031

Abstract

In this paper we consider the problem of estimating the loss of point estimators and study admissibility of such estimators of loss. We adapt and extend the "unified admissibility proof" idea of Brown and Hwang to this problem. We first present the result in the Gaussian setup. We then generalize the procedure to general exponential family distributions and apply it to the Poisson distribution. The result for the gamma distribution is also stated. The role played by the "polydisc transform" (cf. Johnstone and MacGibbon) in making explicit the relationship between the Gaussian and Poisson cases is discussed.

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Chitra Lele. "Admissibility Results in Loss Estimation." Ann. Statist. 21 (1) 378 - 390, March, 1993. https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176349031

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Published: March, 1993
First available in Project Euclid: 12 April 2007

zbMATH: 0773.62004
MathSciNet: MR1212182
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/aos/1176349031

Subjects:
Primary: 62C15

Keywords: Admissibility , Blyth's method , exponential families , loss estimator , Polydisc transform

Rights: Copyright © 1993 Institute of Mathematical Statistics

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