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Constructing Bayes Minimax Estimators through Integral Transformations

Published: May 12, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2505.07649v1

By: Dominique Fourdrinier, William E. Strawderman, Martin T. Wells

Potential Business Impact:

Finds better ways to guess numbers from data.

Business Areas:
A/B Testing Data and Analytics

The problem of Bayes minimax estimation for the mean of a multivariate normal distribution under quadratic loss has attracted significant attention recently. These estimators have the advantageous property of being admissible, similar to Bayes procedures, while also providing the conservative risk guarantees typical of frequentist methods. This paper demonstrates that Bayes minimax estimators can be derived using integral transformation techniques, specifically through the \( I \)-transform and the Laplace transform, as long as appropriate spherical priors are selected. Several illustrative examples are included to highlight the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

Country of Origin
πŸ‡«πŸ‡· πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ United States, France

Page Count
20 pages

Category
Mathematics:
Statistics Theory