Abstract:
Consider the variance components model
EY=
Xβ,
VAB(
Y)=\sum_i=1^m \theta_i V_i where
n×
p matrix
X and
Vi(
i=1,2,…,
m) are known, and
β∈
Rp,
θi≥0 or
θi>0(
i=1,2,…,
m) are parameters. Let
Sβ be linear estimable. In this paper, some results for a linear estimator of
Sβ to be admissible among linear estimators under the quadratic loss function and matrix loss function are obtained respectively. Under normalitsy assumption, we also consider the admissibility of the linear estimator among all the estimators.