Title
Bayesian Shrinkage Estimation of Negative Multinomial Parameter Vectors
Abstract
The negative multinomial distribution is a multivariate generalization of the negative binomial distribution. In this paper, we consider the problem of estimating an unknown matrix of probabilities on the basis of observations of negative multinomial variables under the standardized squared error loss. First, a general sufficient condition for a shrinkage estimator to dominate the UMVU estimator is derived and an empirical Bayes estimator satisfying the condition is constructed. Next, a hierarchical shrinkage prior is introduced, an associated Bayes estimator is shown to dominate the UMVU estimator under some conditions, and some remarks about posterior computation are presented. Finally, shrinkage estimators and the UMVU estimator are compared by simulation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.jmva.2020.104653
Journal of Multivariate Analysis
Keywords
DocType
Volume
62H12,62F15,62C25
Journal
179
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0047-259X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hamura Yasuyuki100.34
Tatsuya Kubokawa23611.73