Elliptically Contoured Distribution (original) (raw)

Abstract

This paper derives an extended version of the Haff or, more appropri-Ž. ately, Stein᎐Haff identity for an elliptically contoured distribution ECD. This identity is then used to show that the minimax estimators of the covariance matrix obtained under normal models remain robust under the ECD model.

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