Quadratic prediction and quadratic sufficiency in finite populations

Xu-Qing Liu, Dong-Dong Wang and Jian-Ying Rong

Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2009, vol. 100, issue 9, 1979-1988

Abstract: The problem of quadratic prediction for population quadratic quantities in finite populations has been considered in the literature. In this paper, we mainly aim at extending the ordinary quadratic prediction problems to a general case, and derive the representations of the two essentially unique optimal predictors: one is an optimal invariant quadratic unbiased predictor, and the other is an optimal invariant quadratic (potentially) biased predictor. Further, we show that the two predictors are nonnegative and reasonable by considering an extreme situation, and apply resulting conclusions to a special model with a compound symmetric variance matrix. In addition, we propose a notion of quadratic sufficiency with regard to the optimal prediction problems by employing materials derived in the first part, and investigate corresponding characterizations in detail.

Keywords: Finite; population; Linear; model; Nonnegativity; OIQBP; OIQUP; Optimal; invariant; quadratic; (potentially); biased; predictor; Optimal; invariant; quadratic; unbiased; predictor; Quadratic; prediction; Quadratic; sufficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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