Everything about Proper convex function

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Proper convex functionA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: PTAexamThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Proper bayes minimax estimators for a multivariate normal mean with unknown common variance under a convex loss functionCited 4 times
4. Go sideways: Effective domainA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Hypograph (mathematics)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Proper bayes minimax estimators for a multivariate normal mean with unknown common variance under a convex loss function

  Pi-Erh Lin, Amany Mousa · 1982 · Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics · 4 citations

• On Directions of Strictness, Affinity and Constancy and the Minimum Set of a Proper Convex Function

  H. Kaufmann · 1988 · Optimization · 3 citations

• The $\mathcal{VU}$ -decomposition to the proper convex function

  Yuan Lu, Wei Wang · 2009 · Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• PTAexamScott M. Giles · 2010

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