Kariya, Takeaki; Konno, Yoshihiko; Strawderman, William E. - In: Journal of Multivariate Analysis 56 (1996) 2, pp. 245-258
In the GMANOVA model or equivalent growth curve model, shrinkage effects on the MLE (maximum likelihood estimator) are considered under an invariant risk matrix. We first study the fundamental structure of the problem through which we decompose the estimation problem into some conditional...