AISM 53, 746-759
© 2001 ISM
(Received November 22, 1999; revised April 5, 2000)
Abstract. Estimation of the quantile $\mu + \kappa \sigma$ of an exponential distribution with parameters $(\mu , \sigma)$ is considered under an arbitrary strictly convex loss function. For $\kappa$ obeying a certain condition, the inadmissibility of the best affine equivariant procedure is established by exhibiting a better estimator. The LINEX loss is studied in detail. For quadratic loss, sufficient conditions are given for a scale equivariant estimator to dominate the best affine equivariant one and, when $\kappa$ exceeds a lower bound specified below, a new minimax estimator is identified.
Key words and phrases: Decision theory, Stein technique, Brewster and Zidek technique, equivariant estimation.