This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper we consider singly imputed synthetic data generated via plugin sampling under the multivariate normal model. Based on the ...

Recent advances in estimation techniques have underscored the growing importance of shrinkage estimation and balanced loss functions in the analysis of multivariate normal distributions. These ...

1. Aspects of multivariate analysis -- 2. Matrix algebra and random vectors -- 3. Sample geometry and random sampling -- 4. The multivariate normal distribution -- 5. Inferences about a mean vector -- ...

In many applications, the manifest variables are not even approximately multivariate normal. If this happens to be the case with your data set, the default generalized least-squares and maximum ...