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On admissible estimation of a mean vector when the scale ...
Yuzo Maruyama, William E. Strawderman · 2021-02-24 · via math.ST updates on arXiv.org

We consider admissibility of generalized Bayes estimators of the mean of a multivariate normal distribution when the scale is unknown under quadratic loss. The priors considered put the improper invariant prior on the scale while the prior on the mean has a hierarchical normal structure conditional on the scale. This conditional hierarchical prior is essentially that of Maruyama and Strawderman (2021, Biometrika) (MS21) which is indexed by a hyperparameter $a$. In that paper $a$ is chosen so this conditional prior is proper which corresponds to $a>-1$. This paper extends MS21 by considering improper conditional priors with $a$ in the closed interval $[-2, -1]$, and establishing admissibility for such $a$. The authors, in Maruyama and Strawderman (2017, JMVA), have earlier shown that such conditional priors with $a < -2$ lead to inadmissible estimators. This paper therefore completes the determination of admissibility/inadmissibility for this class of priors. It establishes the the boundary as $a = -2$, with admissibility holding for $a\geq -2$ and inadmissibility for $a < -2$. This boundary corresponds exactly to that in the known scale case for these conditional priors, and which follows from Brown (1971, AOMS). As a notable benefit of this enlargement of the class of admissible generalized Bayes estimators, we give admissible and minimax estimators in all dimensions greater than $2$ as opposed to MS21 which required the dimension to be greater than $4$. In one particularly interesting special case, we establish that the joint Stein prior for the unknown scale case leads to a minimax admissible estimator in all dimensions greater than $2$.