The Third Order Approximation for the Coverage Probability of a Confidence Set Centered at the Positive Part James-Stein Estimator

Authors

  • Sujitta Suraphee Research Unit on Applied Statistics, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Mahasarakham University, Maha Sarakham, Thailand
  • Nongluck Viriyapong Research Unit on Applied Statistics, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Mahasarakham University, Maha Sarakham, Thailand
  • Nipaporn Chutiman Research Unit on Applied Statistics, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Mahasarakham University, Maha Sarakham, Thailand
  • Monchaya Chiangpradit Research Unit on Applied Statistics, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Mahasarakham University, Maha Sarakham, Thailand

Keywords:

Confidence sets, positive part James-Stein estimator, multivariate normal distribution, coverage probability, asymptotic expansions, third order asymptotic

Abstract

In this paper, we continue the work of Ahmed et al. (2006, 2009, 2015) by investigating the asymptotic expansion approximation for the coverage probability of a confidence set centered at the positive-part James-Stein estimator. The third order Taylor expansion is the main tool here. The theoretical part provides a formula of the approximation for the coverage probability in the case of a noncentrality parameter  gif.latex?\tau&space;\rightarrow&space;0, where gif.latex?\tau&space;^{2}&space;=&space;n\left&space;\|&space;\Theta&space;\right&space;\|^{2}, gif.latex?n is the sample size and  gif.latex?\Theta is the mean vector of the gif.latex?p-variate normal distribution with independent components and equal unit variances. In the computational part, we compare the first, second and third orders of the asymptotic expansion with the exact values of the coverage probabilities in order to obtain the accuracy of estimation. The results show that all of these approximations are reliable. However, the first order of the asymptotic expansion gives the best result, especially when the noncentrality parameter  is far from 0.

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2018-07-19

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Suraphee, S., Viriyapong, N., Chutiman, N., & Chiangpradit, M. (2018). The Third Order Approximation for the Coverage Probability of a Confidence Set Centered at the Positive Part James-Stein Estimator. Thailand Statistician, 16(2), 94–105. Retrieved from https://ph02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/thaistat/article/view/135554

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