Advances in Multivariate Statistical Analysis: Pillai Memorial Volume

Minimaxity of Empirical Bayes Estimators Derived from Subjective Hyperpriors.- Quasi-Inner Products and Their Applications.- A Hierarchy of Relationships Between Covariance Matrices.- Effect of Additional Variables in Principal Component Analysis, Discriminant Analysis and Canonical Correlation Analysis.- On a Locally Best Invariant and Locally Minimax Test in Symmetrical Multivariate Distributions.- Confidence Intervals for the Slope in a Linear Errors-in-Variables Regression Model.- Likelihood Ratio Test for Multisample Sphericity.- Statistical Selection Procedures in Multivariate Models.- Quadratic Forms to have a Specified Distribution.- Asymptotic Expansions for Errors of Situations.- Transformations of Statistics in Multivariate Analysis.- Error Rate Estimation in Discriminant Recent Advances.- Some Simple Optimal Tests in Multivariate Analysis.- Developments in Eigenvalue Estimation.- Asymptotic Non-null Distributions of a Statistic for Testing the Equality of Hermitian Covariance Matrices in the Complex Gaussian Case.- A Model for Interlaboratory Differences.- Bayes Estimators in Lognormal Regression Model.- Multivariate Behrens-Fisher Problem by Heteroscedastic Method.- Tests for Covariance Structure in Familial Data and Principal Component.- Risk of Improved Estimators for Generalized Variance and Precision.- Sampling Distributions of Dependent Quadratic Forms from Normal and Nonnormal Universes.- Bibliography of Works by K. C. S. Pillai.