title: Multivariate Limited Translation Hierarchical Bayes Estimators.
abstract: Based on the notion of predictive influence functions, the paper develops multivariate limited translation hierarchical Bayes estimators of the normal mean vector which serve as a compromise between the hierarchical Bayes and maximum likelihood estimators. The paper demonstrates the superiority of the limited translation estimators over the usual hierarchical Bayes estimators in terms of the frequentist risks when the true parameter to be estimated departs widely from the grand average of all the parameters.
authors.affiliation: University of Florida, Department of Statistics, 103 Griffin/Floyd Hall - P.O. Box 118545, Gainesville, FL 32611-8545.
authors.forename: Malay
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ghosh
authors.forename: Georgios
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Papageorgiou
authors.forename: Janet
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Forrester