In this paper, we consider the problem of estimating the covariance matrix and the generalized variance when the observations follow a nonsingular multivariate normal distribution with unknown mean. A new method is presented to obtain a truncated estimator that utilizes the information available...

In this paper we consider the problem of estimating the regression parameters in a multiple linear regression model when the multicollinearity is present.Under the assumption of normality, we present three empirical Bayes estimators. One of them shrinks the least squares (LS) estimator towards...

In this paper, we consider the problem of estimating the regression parameters in a multiple linear regression model with design matrix A when the multicollinearity is present. Minimax empirical Bayes estimators are proposed under the assumption of normality and loss function (ƒÂ-s)t (At A)2...

The estimation of the precision matrix of the Wishart distribution is one of classical problems studied in a decision-theoretic framework and is related to estimation of mean and covariance matrices of a multivariate normal distribution. This paper revisits the estimation problem of the...

This paper addresses the issue of constructing a confidence interval of a small area mean in a random effect or mixed effects linear model. A crude confidence interval based on the empirical Bayes method has the drawback that its coverage probability is much less than a nominal confidence...

In the small area estimation, the empirical best linear unbiased predictor (EBLUP) or the empirical Bayes estimator (EB) in the linear mixed model is recognized useful because it gives a stable and reliable estimate for a mean of a small area. In practical situations where EBLUP is applied to...

This paper treats the problem of simultaneously estimating the precision matrices in multivariate normal distributions. A condition for improvement on the unbiased estimators of the precision matrices is derived under a quadratic loss function. The improvement condition is similar to the...

The Akaike information criterion, AIC, and Mallows' Cp statistic have been proposed for selecting a smaller number of regressor variables in the multivariate regression models with fully unknown covariance matrix. All these criteria are, however, based on the implicit assumption that the sample...

The empirical best linear unbiased predictor (EBLUP) or the empirical Bayes estimator (EB) in the linear mixed model is recognized useful for the small area estimation, because it can increase the estimation precision by using the information from the related areas. Two of the measures of...