This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper we consider singly imputed synthetic data generated via plugin sampling under the multivariate normal model. Based on the ...

Recent advances in estimation techniques have underscored the growing importance of shrinkage estimation and balanced loss functions in the analysis of multivariate normal distributions. These ...

The quality of inferences made from geostatistical data is affected significantly by the spatial locations, or design, of the sites that are sampled. A large body of published work exists on sampling ...