The Stein effect for Fréchet means

DOI10.1214/22-AOS2245MaRDI QIDQ2112836

Andrew McCormack, Peter D. Hoff

Publication date: 12 January 2023

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09101

zbMATH Keywords

empirical BayesHadamard spacenonparametricshrinkageadmissibility

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Admissibility in statistical decision theory (62C15) Statistics on metric spaces (62R20)

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