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A special feature of P/S Day at UMBC 2012 is that the conference, including the workshop, is open to all statistics graduate students from UMBC and local universites free of charge, but... REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED!!! The deadline to register is Friday, April 6, 2012.   // REGISTER NOW

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Bimal Sinha, Conference Chair
443-538-3012

Nagaraj Neerchal
Thomas Mathew
Anindya Roy
Junyoung Park
DoHwan Park
Yvonne Huang
Elizabeth Stanwyck
Yaakov Malinovsky
Kofi Adragni

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Sévérien Nkurunziza

Extension of some useful identities in shrinkage strategies and their applications

In this talk, we present some recent applications of Shrinkage and Pretest strategies in some multiple multivariate stochastic processes. More precisely, we consider the estimation problem for the drift parameters matrices of M independent multivariate diffusion processes. In particular, we study the problem where the M-parameters matrices may satisfy uncertain constraints. In order to account for both the sample information and uncertain prior non-sample information, we develop a class of estimators which encloses as special cases the maximum likelihood estimator (MLEs) and shrinkage estimators (SEs). In particular, the established SEs showcase the well known Stein’s phenomenon. Also, we extend some recent asymptotic results in Kutoyants (2004) as well as that in Nkurunziza and Ahmed (2010). Further, in order to derive the asymptotic distributional risk and bias of the established class of estimators, we extend some classical identities.