A Heuristic Method for Determining Admissibility of Estimators--With Applications

INADMISSIBILITY OF THE USUAL ESTIMATOR FOR THE MEAN OF A MULTIVARIATE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION

1956 • 1,847 citations

Inadmissibility of the usual estimator for the variance of a normal distribution with unknown mean

1964 • 345 citations

Admissible Estimators, Recurrent Diffusions, and Insoluble Boundary Value Problems

1971 • 283 citations

Improving on Equivariant Estimators

1974 • 259 citations

A Natural Identity for Exponential Families with Applications in Multiparameter Estimation

1978 • 230 citations

On the Admissibility of Invariant Estimators of One or More Location Parameters

1966 • 193 citations

Inadmissibility of the Usual Estimators of Scale parameters in Problems with Unknown Location and Scale Parameters

1968 • 192 citations

Invariance, Minimax Sequential Estimation, and Continuous Time Processes

1957 • 180 citations

Simultaneous Estimation of the Means of Independent Poisson Laws

1975 • 102 citations

The Admissibility of Pitman's Estimator of a Single Location Parameter

1959 • 91 citations

Estimators of a Location Parameter in the Absolutely Continuous Case

1964 • 86 citations

A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Admissibility

1955 • 60 citations

Estimation with Incompletely Specified Loss Functions (the Case of Several Location Parameters)

1975 • 56 citations

Formal Bayes Estimation with Application to a Random Effects Model

1971 • 54 citations

Estimation of the Larger of Two Normal Means

1968 • 52 citations

Approximation of Improper Prior Measures by Prior Probability Measures

1965 • 51 citations

Estimation of the Last Mean of a Monotone Sequence

1970 • 47 citations

Generalized Bayes Estimators in Multivariate Problems

1978 • 42 citations

Estimating the Scale Parameter of the Exponential Distribution with Unknown Location

1973 • 42 citations

Estimation of the Larger Translation Parameter

1968 • 40 citations

Towards a Theory of Generalized Bayes Tests

1968 • 38 citations

A Necessary Condition for Admissibility

1980 • 24 citations

Sufficient Conditions for the Admissibility Under Squared Errors Loss of Formal Bayes Estimators

1970 • 23 citations

Admissibility Results for Generalized Bayes Estimators of Coordinates of a Location Vector

1976 • 23 citations

Approximate Behavior of the Posterior Distribution for a Large Observation

1977 • 16 citations

Inadmissibility Results for the Best Invariant Estimator of Two Coordinates of a Location Vector

1976 • 7 citations

Admissibility of the Best Invariant Estimator of One Co-Ordinate of a Location Vector

1975 • 7 citations

On solutions to ut = Δu + u2 in two dimensions

1976 • 5 citations

Transience and Solvability of a Non-Linear Diffusion Equation

1975 • 4 citations