The beta coefficient plays a crucial role in finance as a risk measure of a portfolio in comparison to the benchmark portfolio. In the paper, we investigate statistical properties of the sample estimator for the beta coefficient. Assuming that both the holding portfolio and the benchmark...

A purely frequentist development of James-Stein shrinkage estimators of the multivariate normal mean under quadratic loss functions is presented, which allows for an intuitive interpretation of these estimators as best estimators of best linear 'estimators' of the mean vector.

In this paper, we define a new class of multivariate skew-normal distributions. Its properties are studied. In particular we derive its density, moment generating function, the first two moments and marginal and conditional distributions. We illustrate the contours of a bivariate density as well...

The (univariate) t-distribution and symmetric V.G. distribution are competing models [D.S. Madan, E. Seneta, The variance gamma (V.G.) model for share market returns, J. Business 63 (1990) 511-524; T.W. Epps, Pricing Derivative Securities, World Scientific, Singapore, 2000 (Section 9.4)] for the...

For a class of multivariate skew normal distributions, the noncentral skew chi-square distribution is studied. The necessary and sufficient conditions under which a sequence of quadratic forms is generalized noncentral skew chi-square distributed random variables are obtained. Several examples...

In this paper we consider the problem of testing the hypothesis about the sub-mean vector. For this propose, the asymptotic expansion of the null distribution of Rao's U-statistic under a general condition is obtained up to order of n-1. The same problem in the k-sample case is also...

In this paper, we derive the Stein-Haff identity for the multivariate elliptically contoured matrix distributions. Our results generalize the results of the papers by [Stein, C., 1977. Personal communication. Unpublished notes on estimating the covariance matrix] and [Haff, L.R., 1979a. An...

In this paper, a new measure of dependence is proposed. Our approach is based on transforming univariate data to the space where the marginal distributions are normally distributed and then, using the inverse transformation to obtain the distribution function in the original space. The...