Recent advances in estimation techniques have underscored the growing importance of shrinkage estimation and balanced loss functions in the analysis of multivariate normal distributions. These ...
The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Jun., 2009), pp. 1360-1404 (45 pages) We study the problem of nonparametric estimation of a multivariate function $g ...
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 57, No. 1 (2008), pp. 75-87 (13 pages) Complex survey sampling is often used to sample a fraction of a large finite ...