Linear regression-based quantitative trait loci/association mapping methods such as least squares commonly assume normality of residuals. In genetics studies of plants or animals, some quantitative ...

Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (2008-), Vol. 82, No. 1 (May 2020), pp. 34-69 (36 pages) Existing methods for estimating the parameters of 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 ...

Methods for simulation from multivariate Gaussian distributions restricted to be from outside an arbitrary ellipsoidal region are often needed in applications. A standard rejection algorithm that ...