Statistics Seminar: Minimax Bayes Estimators in Regression Models

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Author: Ruth Croxford
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1988 14:42

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Topic:    Minimax Bayes Estimators in Regression Models
Speaker:  Nancy Heckman, Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia
Date:     Thursday, Nov. 3, 4:00 p.m.
Place:    Room 2110, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St, University of Toronto

Abstract:

Suppose that one observes _n pairs (_p_i,_y_i) and that the conditional mean of _y, 
given _p and the regression function _f,is equal to _f(_p).  The goal is to estimate 
the vector_ F = {_f(_t1),...,_f(_tn) , under the assumption that _f is in some sense 
smooth. To reflect the smoothness condition _F is assumed to be multivariate normal
with the means of _f(_t_i)-_f(_t_i-1) = 0 and their variances bounded by _epsilon, a 
pre-specified smoothing parameter.  The estimate of _F will be the linear estimator
which minimizes the maximum expected mean squared error. The maximum is taken over
all covariance matrices which satisfy the _epsilon bound on the variances.  This 
minimax problem is a difficult one (impossible) to solve, either theoretically or 
numerically and so modified problems are considered.

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