We investigate the problem of simultaneous estimation of multivariate normal mean vector using Zellner (1994)’s balance loss function when common variance σ2 is unknown. We first find a class of minimax estimators for this problem which extends a class given by Chung et al. (1999). This...

The problem of estimating the mean vector μ of a multivariate normal distribution with the covariance matrix σ2Ip is considered under the loss function, (δ−μ)′D(δ−μ)σ2, where σ2 is unknown and D is a known positive definite diagonal matrix. A large class of Bayes minimax estimators...