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2017 On the estimation of the mean of a random vector
Emilien Joly, Gábor Lugosi, Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira
Electron. J. Statist. 11(1): 440-451 (2017). DOI: 10.1214/17-EJS1228

Abstract

We study the problem of estimating the mean of a multivariate distribution based on independent samples. The main result is the proof of existence of an estimator with a non-asymptotic sub-Gaussian performance for all distributions satisfying some mild moment assumptions.

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Emilien Joly. Gábor Lugosi. Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira. "On the estimation of the mean of a random vector." Electron. J. Statist. 11 (1) 440 - 451, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1214/17-EJS1228

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Received: 1 July 2016; Published: 2017
First available in Project Euclid: 2 March 2017

zbMATH: 1362.62121
MathSciNet: MR3619312
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/17-EJS1228

Subjects:
Primary: 62F10 , 62F35
Secondary: 62H11

Keywords: directional data , point estimation , robustness and adaptive procedures , spatial statistics

Vol.11 • No. 1 • 2017
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