Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to give an explicit estimator dominating the positive part of the UMVUE of a noncentrality parameter of a noncentral χ2n(μ/2). Let Y ∼ χ2n(μ/2) with degree of freedom n and unknown parameter μ, loss = (δ - μ)2. In his (1974) paper de Waal showed that Y + n is the generalized Bayes estimator of μ with respect to a noninformative prior distribution (Comm. Statist.3(1), 73-79). Y - n is the UMVUE of μ and dominates Y + n, but is dominated by (Y - n)+. Alam and Saxena (1982, Ann. Statist.10, 1012-1016) showed that (Y - n)+ dominates the MLE of μ. Chow (1987, Ann. Statist.15, 800-804) showed that (Y - n)+ is inadmissible. Explicit improvements, however, have not previously been found.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 52-66 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Journal of Multivariate Analysis |
Volume | 53 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 1995 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Statistics and Probability
- Numerical Analysis
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Keywords
- Admissibility
- Squared error loss