Minimax Estimation of a Normal Mean Vector for Arbitrary Quadratic Loss and Unknown Covariance Matrix
未知协方差与任意二次损失下正态均值向量的极小极大估计
Let $X$ be an observation from a $p$-variate normal distribution $(p \geqq 3)$ with mean vector $\theta$ and unknown positive definite covariance matrix $\not\Sigma$. It is desired to estimate $\theta$ under the quadratic loss $L(\delta, \theta, \not\Sigma) = (\delta - \theta)^tQ(\delta - \theta)/\operatorname{tr} (Q\not\Sigma)$, where $Q$ is a known positive definite matrix. Estimators of the following form are considered: $\delta^c(X, W) = (I - c\alpha Q^{-1}W^{-1}/(X^tW^{-1}X))X,$…