Statistical Science

Volume 27, Number 1

Publication Date: February 2012

Frontmatter

Editorial Board

Table of Contents

Special Section: Minimax Shrinkage Estimation: A Tribute to Charles Stein

A Tribute to Charles Stein

Edward I. George and William E. Strawderman; 1-2

Bayesian Nonparametric Shrinkage Applied to Cepheid Star Oscillations

James Berger, William H. Jefferys and Peter Müller; 3-10

Stein Estimation for Spherically Symmetric Distributions: Recent Developments

Ann Cohen Brandwein and William E. Strawderman; 11-23

A Geometrical Explanation of Stein Shrinkage

Lawrence D. Brown and Linda H. Zhao; 24-30

Minimax and Adaptive Inference in Nonparametric Function Estimation

T. Tony Cai; 31-50

Shrinkage Confidence Procedures

George Casella and J. T. Gene Hwang; 51-60

On Improved Loss Estimation for Shrinkage Estimators

Dominique Fourdrinier and Martin T. Wells; 61-81

From Minimax Shrinkage Estimation to Minimax Shrinkage Prediction

Edward I. George, Feng Liang and Xinyi Xu; 82-94

Small Area Shrinkage Estimation

G. Datta and M. Ghosh; 95-114

Shrinkage Estimation in Multilevel Normal Models

Carl N. Morris and Martin Lysy; 115-134

Reversing the Stein Effect

Michael D. Perlman and Sanjay Chaudhuri; 135-143

General Section

Celebrating 70: An Interview with Don Berry

Dalene Stangl, Lurdes Y. T. Inoue and Telba Z. Irony; 144-159

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