We consider the performance of the independent rule in classification of multivariate binary data. In this article, broad studies are presented including the performance of the independent rule when the number of variables, d, is fixed or increased with the sample size, n. The latter situation...

A flexible class of anisotropic stationary lattice processes with long memory can be defined in terms of a two-way fractional ARIMA (FARIMA) representation. We consider parameter estimation based on minimizing an approximate residual sum of squares. The method can be applied to sampling areas...

Bayesian predictive densities for the 2-dimensional Wishart model are investigated. The performance of predictive densities is evaluated by using the Kullback-Leibler divergence. It is proved that a Bayesian predictive density based on a prior exactly dominates that based on the Jeffreys prior...

We study the role of partial autocorrelations in the reparameterization and parsimonious modeling of a covariance matrix. The work is motivated by and tries to mimic the phenomenal success of the partial autocorrelations function (PACF) in model formulation, removing the positive-definiteness...

The Stein-rule (SR) and positive-part Stein-rule (PSR) estimators are two popular shrinkage techniques used in linear regression, yet very little is known about the robustness of these estimators to the disturbances' deviation from the white noise assumption. Recent studies have shown that the...

We derive minimax generalized Bayes estimators of regression coefficients in the general linear model with spherically symmetric errors under invariant quadratic loss for the case of unknown scale. The class of estimators generalizes the class considered in Maruyama and Strawderman [Y. Maruyama,...

We establish computationally flexible methods and algorithms for the analysis of multivariate skew normal models when missing values occur in the data. To facilitate the computation and simplify the theoretic derivation, two auxiliary permutation matrices are incorporated into the model for the...

The problem of estimating large covariance matrices of multivariate real normal and complex normal distributions is considered when the dimension of the variables is larger than the number of samples. The Stein-Haff identities and calculus on eigenstructure for singular Wishart matrices are...

It is known that each symmetric stable distribution in is related to a norm on that makes embeddable in Lp([0,1]). In the case of a multivariate Cauchy distribution the unit ball in this norm is the polar set to a convex set in called a zonoid. This work interprets symmetric stable laws using...

We establish a functional central limit theorem for a sequence of least squares residuals of spatial data from a linear regression model. Under mild assumptions on the model we explicitly determine the limit process in the case where the assumed linear model is true. Moreover, in the case where...