Abstract:
Let
Y=
X1BX'2+
Uε be a multivariate linear model, where
X1,
X2 and
U≠0 are known matrices,
B is an unknown matrix and ε is a random matrix. Suppose moments of the first, second and fourth order of ε have the forms as follows \begingatheredE \varepsilon=0, E \varepsilon \varepsilon^\prime=I \otimes \Sigma, \\ C_o v \varepsilon \varepsilon^\prime=2(I \otimes \Sigma) \otimes(I \otimes \Sigma)\endgathered where ∑≥0 is an unknown matrix and
UU’ is an idempotent matrix. This paper gives a necessary and sufficient condition for tr (
C∑)to be the uniformly minimum variance nonnegative quadratic unbiased estimator of tr (
C∑) where ∑ is the least square estimator of ∑ and
C≠0 is a known nonnegative definite matrix.