2014 Volume 44 Issue 2 Pages 195-218
This paper addresses the problems of estimating the normal covariance and precision matrices. A commutator subgroup of lower triangular matrices is considered for deriving a class of invariant estimators. The class shows inadmissibility of the best invariant and minimax estimator of the covariance matrix relative to quadratic loss. Also, in estimation of the precision matrix, a dominance result is given for improvement on a minimax estimator relative to the Stein loss.