Pitman estimation for ensembles and mixtures
This dissertation considers minimal risk equivariant (MRE) estimation of a location scalar μ in ensembles and mixtures of translation families having structured dispersion matrices Σ. The principal focus is the preservation of Pitman's solutions across classes of distributions. To these ends...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39155 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08142006-110114/ |