A Note on the Mean Volume of Confidence Ellipsoid for the Mean of Multivariate Normal Distribution
J. Mi (2008). A Note on the Mean Volume of Confidence Ellipsoid for the Mean of Multivariate Normal Distribution. Journal of Statistical Research, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 37-44.
Abstract
This paper shows that more data or information is better in estimating the mean of a multivariate normal distribution. Precisely, the mean volume of confidence ellipsoid for the mean decrease with addition of independent observation. This result is obvious when the variance-covariance matrix of the multivariate normal distribution is known, but it not so straight to see the result when the variance-covariance matrix is unknown.