TY - JOUR AU - Joarder, Anvar H. AU - Hossain, Md A. PY - 1996/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Estimation of the eigenvalues of the scale matrix of a class of elliptical distributions JF - Statistica JA - Stat VL - 56 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - 10.6092/issn.1973-2201/1033 UR - https://rivista-statistica.unibo.it/article/view/1033 SP - 313-319 AB - The simultaneous estimation of the eigenvalues of the scale matrix of a class of elliptical distributions is considered. An improved estimation strategy is developed in the light of a quadratic loss function. It is demonstrated analytically that the class of proposed estimators outperforms the class of usual estimators in the sense of having smaller risk. ER -