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尺度未知时均值向量的可容许估计

On admissible estimation of a mean vector when the scale is unknown

Yuzo Maruyama, William E. Strawderman

摘要:

在二次损失下,当尺度未知时,考虑了多元正态分布均值的广义Bayes估计的可容许性。先验考虑把不适当的不变先验的规模,而先验的平均值有一个层次的正常结构的规模条件。这种条件分层先验本质上是Maruyama和Strawderman(2021,Biometrika)(MS 21)的先验,它由超参数$a$索引。在该论文中,选择$a$,使得该条件先验是适当的,其对应于$a>-1$。本文通过考虑$a$在闭区间$[-2, -1]$上的非正常条件先验,对MS 21进行了推广,建立了这种$a$的容许性.作者在Maruyama和Strawderman(2017,JMVA)中早些时候已经证明了$a < -2$的这种条件先验导致不可接受的估计量。因此,本文完成了这类先验的可受理性/不可受理性的确定。它将边界建立为$a = -2$,其中允许$a\geq -2$,不允许$a < -2$。这个边界正好对应于这些条件先验的已知尺度情况下的边界,并且可以从Brown(1971,AOMS)中得到。作为一个显着的好处,这类扩大的容许广义贝叶斯估计,我们给容许和极大极小估计在所有维度大于$2$,而不是MS 21,需要的维度大于$4$。在一个特别有趣的特殊情况下,我们建立了联合斯坦前未知规模的情况下,导致一个极大极小可容许估计在所有维度大于$2$。

英文摘要:

We consider admissibility of generalized Bayes estimators of the mean of a multivariate normal distribution when the scale is unknown under quadratic loss. The priors considered put the improper invariant prior on the scale while the prior on the mean has a hierarchical normal structure conditional on the scale. This conditional hierarchical prior is essentially that of Maruyama and Strawderman (2021, Biometrika) (MS21) which is indexed by a hyperparameter $a$. In that paper $a$ is chosen so this conditional prior is proper which corresponds to $a>-1$. This paper extends MS21 by considering improper conditional priors with $a$ in the closed interval $[-2, -1]$, and establishing admissibility for such $a$. The authors, in Maruyama and Strawderman (2017, JMVA), have earlier shown that such conditional priors with $a < -2$ lead to inadmissible estimators. This paper therefore completes the determination of admissibility/inadmissibility for this class of priors. It establishes the the boundary as $a = -2$, with admissibility holding for $a\geq -2$ and inadmissibility for $a < -2$. This boundary corresponds exactly to that in the known scale case for these conditional priors, and which follows from Brown (1971, AOMS). As a notable benefit of this enlargement of the class of admissible generalized Bayes estimators, we give admissible and minimax estimators in all dimensions greater than $2$ as opposed to MS21 which required the dimension to be greater than $4$. In one particularly interesting special case, we establish that the joint Stein prior for the unknown scale case leads to a minimax admissible estimator in all dimensions greater than $2$.

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