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On the estimation of the mean of a random vector
Author(s) -
Émilien Joly,
Gábor Lugosi,
Roberto I. Oliveira
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
electronic journal of statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.482
H-Index - 54
ISSN - 1935-7524
DOI - 10.1214/17-ejs1228
Subject(s) - mathematics , estimator , moment (physics) , multivariate random variable , statistics , multivariate statistics , multivariate normal distribution , estimation , gaussian , distribution (mathematics) , random variable , mathematical analysis , physics , management , classical mechanics , quantum mechanics , economics
We study the problem of estimating the mean of a multivariatedistribution based on independent samples. The main result is the proof of existence of an estimator with a non-asymptotic sub-Gaussian performance for all distributions satisfying some mild moment assumptions.

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