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New development of shrinkage estimation methods in statistical inference

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K11188
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 60030:Statistical science-related
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

Kubokawa Tatsuya  東京大学, 大学院経済学研究科(経済学部), 教授 (20195499)

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Keywords統計的決定理論 / 縮小推定 / 多変量解析 / 小地域推定 / ミニマックス性 / 高次元解析 / ベイズ推定 / 線形混合モデル / スタイン問題 / 歪正規分布 / 高次元統計 / 推測統計 / 混合効果モデル
Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research project, various inference problems were addressed regarding three topics: (A) new developments in small area estimation theory using mixed effects models, (B) new developments in the Stein problem concerning simultaneous estimation of multidimensional parameters, and (C) the effectiveness and usefulness of shrinkage estimation methods in high-dimensional multivariate models. Theoretical properties regarding the effectiveness and optimality and the usefulness from an applied perspective were investigated.
In particular, a new theory of small area estimation incorporating skew-normal distribution as the distribution of random effects was developed and its usefulness was demonstrated through data analysis. Additionally, a new challenge of simultaneous estimation of mean vectors in skew-normal distributions and derivation of conditions for minimaxity of shrinkage estimators were addressed.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究課題では,統計的決定理論と小地域推定理論に関する様々なトピックについて新たな理論の構築と応用での有用性が示されており,これらの分野への理論研究の貢献を与えている。特に,歪んだ正規分布やランク落ちした共分散行列などを組み込んだ新たなモデルの提案と新たな推測手法の導出は挑戦的な取り組みであり,これらの分野の次のステップへの貢献に繋がる。また,小地域推定は官庁統計・政府統計において重要な分野であるので,数理統計学からの新たな理論的な貢献は応用的にも意味があると考えられる。

Report

(7 results)
  • 2023 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (38 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018

All Journal Article (38 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 14 results,  Peer Reviewed: 37 results,  Open Access: 3 results)

  • [Journal Article] Shrinkage estimation of a location parameter for a multivariate skew elliptic distribution2023

    • Author(s)
      D. Fourdrinier, T. Kubokawa and W.E. Strawderman
    • Journal Title

      Sankhya, -A

      Volume: 85 Issue: 1 Pages: 808-828

    • DOI

      10.1007/s13171-022-00280-9

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Generalized Bayes estimators with closed forms for the normal mean and covariance matrices2023

    • Author(s)
      Yuasa Ryota、Kubokawa Tatsuya
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

      Volume: 222 Pages: 182-194

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.jspi.2022.06.007

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Weighted shrinkage estimators of normal mean matrices and dominance properties2023

    • Author(s)
      Yuasa Ryota、Kubokawa Tatsuya
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Multivariate Analysis

      Volume: 194 Pages: 105138-105138

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.jmva.2022.105138

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Linear shrinkage estimation of high-dimensional means2023

    • Author(s)
      Y. Ikeda, R. Nakada, T. Kubokawa and M.S. Srivastava
    • Journal Title

      Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

      Volume: 52 Issue: 13 Pages: 4444-4460

    • DOI

      10.1080/03610926.2021.1994610

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Benchmarked linear shrinkage prediction in the Fay-Herriot small area model2023

    • Author(s)
      K. Chikamatsu and T. Kubokawa
    • Journal Title

      Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

      Volume: 50 Issue: 2 Pages: 572-588

    • DOI

      10.1111/sjos.12596

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Information criterion with a mixture prior and its consistency properties2023

    • Author(s)
      H. Kono and T. Kubokawa
    • Journal Title

      Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

      Volume: 50 Issue: 3 Pages: 1022-1047

    • DOI

      10.1111/sjos.12617

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Robustness of a truncated estimator for the smaller of two ordered means2022

    • Author(s)
      Hamura Yasuyuki、Kubokawa Tatsuya
    • Journal Title

      Statistical Papers

      Volume: - Issue: 6 Pages: 2225-2244

    • DOI

      10.1007/s00362-022-01371-3

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Bayesian predictive density estimation for a Chi-squared model using information from a normal observation with unknown mean and variance2022

    • Author(s)
      Hamura Yasuyuki、Kubokawa Tatsuya
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

      Volume: 217 Pages: 33-51

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.jspi.2021.07.004

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] データサイエンスと線形代数2022

    • Author(s)
      久保川達也
    • Journal Title

      数理科学

      Volume: 60

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Bayesian predictive density estimation with parametric constraints for the exponential distribution with unknown location2022

    • Author(s)
      Hamura Yasuyuki、Kubokawa Tatsuya
    • Journal Title

      Metrika

      Volume: 85 Issue: 4 Pages: 515-536

    • DOI

      10.1007/s00184-021-00840-3

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Covariance based moment equations for improved variance component estimation2022

    • Author(s)
      S. Chaudhuri, T. Kubokawa, S. Sugasawa
    • Journal Title

      Statistics

      Volume: 56 Issue: 6 Pages: 1290-1318

    • DOI

      10.1080/02331888.2022.2144856

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Corrected empirical Bayes confidence region in a multivariate Fay-Herriot model2021

    • Author(s)
      T. Ito and T. Kubokawa
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

      Volume: 211 Pages: 12-32

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.jspi.2020.05.008

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Shrinkage estimation with singular priors and an approach to small area estimation2021

    • Author(s)
      R. Nakada, T. Kubokawa, M. Ghosh and S. Karmakar
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Multivariate Analysis

      Volume: 183 Pages: 1-18

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.jmva.2021.104726

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Linear shrinkage estimation of the variance of a distribution with unknown mean2021

    • Author(s)
      Y. Ikeda, R. Nakada, T. Kubokawa and M.S. Srivastava
    • Journal Title

      Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

      Volume: 50 Issue: 9 Pages: 2039-2047

    • DOI

      10.1080/03610926.2019.1657457

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Empirical best linear unbiased predictors in multivariate nested-error regression model2021

    • Author(s)
      T. Ito and T. Kubokawa
    • Journal Title

      Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

      Volume: 50 Issue: 10 Pages: 2224-2249

    • DOI

      10.1080/03610926.2019.1662048

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] General unbiased estimating equations for variance components in linear mixed models2021

    • Author(s)
      Kubokawa T., Sugasawa S., Tamae H. and Chaudhuri S.
    • Journal Title

      Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science

      Volume: 4 Issue: 2 Pages: 841-859

    • DOI

      10.1007/s42081-021-00138-8

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Estimation of a covariance matrix in multivariate skew-normal distribution2020

    • Author(s)
      H. Tsukuma and T. Kubokawa (2020)
    • Journal Title

      Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

      Volume: 49 Issue: 5 Pages: 1174-1200

    • DOI

      10.1080/03610926.2018.1554137

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] On the loss robustness of least squares estimator2020

    • Author(s)
      T. Ghosh, M. Ghosh and T. Kubokawa
    • Journal Title

      American Statisticians

      Volume: 74 Issue: 1 Pages: 64-67

    • DOI

      10.1080/00031305.2018.1529626

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Shrinkage estimation of location parameters in a multivariate skew-normal distribution2020

    • Author(s)
      T. Kubokawa, W.E. Strawderman and R. Yuasa
    • Journal Title

      Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

      Volume: 49 Issue: 8 Pages: 2008-2024

    • DOI

      10.1080/03610926.2019.1568481

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Bayesian predictive distribution for a Poisson model with a parameter restriction2020

    • Author(s)
      Y. Hamura and T. Kubokawa
    • Journal Title

      Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

      Volume: 49 Issue: 13 Pages: 3257-3266

    • DOI

      10.1080/03610926.2019.1586943

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Robust estimation of mean squared error matrix of small area estimators in a multivariate Fay-Herriot model2020

    • Author(s)
      T. Ito and T. Kubokawa
    • Journal Title

      Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science

      Volume: 3 Issue: 1 Pages: 39-61

    • DOI

      10.1007/s42081-019-00044-0

    • NAID

      210000160241

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Density prediction and the Stein phenomenon2020

    • Author(s)
      M. Ghosh, T. Kubokawa and G.S. Datta
    • Journal Title

      Sankhya

      Volume: 82-A Issue: 2 Pages: 330-352

    • DOI

      10.1007/s13171-019-00186-z

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Ridge-type linear shrinkage estimation of the mean matrix of a high-dimensional normal distribution2020

    • Author(s)
      Yuasa Ryota、Kubokawa Tatsuya
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Multivariate Analysis

      Volume: 178 Pages: 104608-104608

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.jmva.2020.104608

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Bayesian shrinkage estimation of negative multinomial parameter vectors2020

    • Author(s)
      Y. Hamura and T. Kubokawa
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Multivariate Analysis

      Volume: 179 Pages: 1-22

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.jmva.2020.104653

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Proper Bayes minimax estimation of parameters of Poisson distributions in the presence of unbalanced sample sizes2020

    • Author(s)
      Y. Hamura and T. Kubokawa
    • Journal Title

      Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics

      Volume: 34 Issue: 4 Pages: 728-751

    • DOI

      10.1214/19-bjps459

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] A Score-adjusted approach to closed-form estimators for the gamma and beta distributions2020

    • Author(s)
      H. Tamae, K. Irie and T. Kubokawa
    • Journal Title

      Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science

      Volume: 3 Issue: 2 Pages: 543-561

    • DOI

      10.1007/s42081-019-00071-x

    • NAID

      210000168697

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Small area estimation with mixed models: a review2020

    • Author(s)
      Sugasawa, S. and Kubokawa, T.
    • Journal Title

      Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science

      Volume: - Issue: 2 Pages: 693-720

    • DOI

      10.1007/s42081-020-00076-x

    • NAID

      210000168341

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Bayesian simultaneous estimation for means in k-sample problems2019

    • Author(s)
      Imai Ryo、Kubokawa Tatsuya、Ghosh Malay
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Multivariate Analysis

      Volume: 169 Pages: 49-60

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.jmva.2018.08.013

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Bayesian predictive distribution for a negative binomial model2019

    • Author(s)
      Y. Hamura, T. Kubokawa
    • Journal Title

      Mathematical Methods of Statistics

      Volume: 28 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-17

    • DOI

      10.3103/s1066530719010010

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Hierarchical Bayes small area estimation with an unknown link function.2019

    • Author(s)
      Sugasawa, S., Kubokawa, T. and Rao, J. N. K.
    • Journal Title

      Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

      Volume: to appear Issue: 3 Pages: 885-897

    • DOI

      10.1111/sjos.12376

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Empirical Bayes methods in nested error regression models with skew-normal error2019

    • Author(s)
      T. Tsujino, T. Kubokawa
    • Journal Title

      Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science

      Volume: 2 Issue: 2 Pages: 375-403

    • DOI

      10.1007/s42081-019-00038-y

    • NAID

      210000178102

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Simultaneous estimation of parameters of heterogeneous Poisson distributions2019

    • Author(s)
      Y. Hamura, T. Kubokawa
    • Journal Title

      Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science

      Volume: 2 Issue: 2 Pages: 405-435

    • DOI

      10.1007/s42081-019-00039-x

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Adaptively transformed mixed model prediction of general finite population parameters2019

    • Author(s)
      S. Sugasawa, T. Kubokawa
    • Journal Title

      Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

      Volume: 46 Pages: 1025-1046

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Hierarchical Bayes versus empirical Bayes density predictors under general divergence loss2019

    • Author(s)
      M. Ghosh, T. Kubokawa
    • Journal Title

      Biometrika

      Volume: 106 Issue: 2 Pages: 495-500

    • DOI

      10.1093/biomet/asy073

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Small area estimation via unmatched sampling and linking models2018

    • Author(s)
      S. Sugasawa, T. Kubokawa, J.N.K. Rao
    • Journal Title

      Test

      Volume: 27 Pages: 407-427

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Conditional Akaike information under covariate shift with application to small area estimation2018

    • Author(s)
      Yuki Kawakubo, Shonosuke Sugasawa and Tatsuya Kubokawa
    • Journal Title

      Canadian Journal of Statistics

      Volume: 印刷中 Issue: 2 Pages: 316-335

    • DOI

      10.1002/cjs.11354

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] A variant of AIC based on the Bayesian marginal likelihood2018

    • Author(s)
      Yuki Kawakubo, Tatsuya Kubokawa and Muni S. Srivastava
    • Journal Title

      Sankhya B

      Volume: 印刷中 Issue: 1 Pages: 60-84

    • DOI

      10.1007/s13571-018-0152-7

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Bayes minimax competitors of preliminary test estimators in k sample problems2018

    • Author(s)
      R. Imai, T. Kubokawa, M. Ghosh
    • Journal Title

      Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science

      Volume: 1 Issue: 1 Pages: 3-21

    • DOI

      10.1007/s42081-018-0002-x

    • NAID

      210000188610

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research

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