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Let \\(Y \\sim \\chi^2_n (\\mu/2)\\) with \\(n\\) (known) degrees of freedom and unknown noncentrality parameter \\(\\mu\\). We consider the problem of estimating \\(\\mu\\) with loss \\(= (\\delta - \\mu)^2\\). The estimator \\(Y + n\\) is the generalized Bayes estimator of \\(\\mu\\) with respect to a noninformative prior distribution and is dominated by \\(Y - n\\), the UMVUE of \\(\\mu\\).    Our results fall into two broad classes. The first set of results describes explicit estimators which change \\((Y - n)_+\\) only on the set \\([n,n + 2]\\). These results depend on some properties of central chi-square distributions which along with other preliminary results are given in Section 2. In Section 3, we will study alternative estimators of the form  \\[ \\delta (a,g,Y) = (Y - n)_+ - ag(Y) I_{\\{n \\leq Y \\leq n + 2\\}}, \\tag{1} \\]  where \\(g (\\cdot)\\) is an even symmetric (``\\(W\\)-shaped'') piecewise linear function about \\(Y = n + 1\\) with \\(g(n) = g(n + 2) = 0\\), \\(g'(n) < 0\\) and \\(|g'(Y) |\\equiv 1\\) a.e. on \\([n,n + 2]\\). To fully specify \\(\\delta (a,g,Y)\\), it suffices to specify the constant \\(a\\) and a value \\(y^*\\) in \\((n + 1,n + 2)\\) such that \\(g(y^*)\\) attains its minimum. Values of \\(a\\) and \\(y^*\\) are given such that \\(\\delta (a,g,Y)\\) dominates \\((Y - n)_+\\). In Section 4, we study estimators of the form (1) for certain nonpiecewise linear \\(g\\). It follows from the results of \\textit{M. S. Chow} [Ann. Stat. 15, 800-804 (1987; Zbl 0627.62008)] that estimators of the form (1) cannot themselves be admissible because they are not generalized Bayes. Therefore we investigate a more general class of estimators in Section 5. This second class of estimators is of the form  \\[ \\delta (Y) = (Y - n)_+ - ag (Y) I_{\\{Y > q \\}} - akh (Y) I_{\\{0 \\leq Y \\leq q\\}} \\tag{2} \\]  with \\(q > n\\). We give conditions on \\(a,k,q\\), \\(g (\\cdot)\\) such that (2) dominates \\((Y - n)_+\\). In this case, \\(g (\\cdot)\\) will be ``\\(W\\)'' shaped on \\([q, \\infty)\\) and \\(h (\\cdot)\\) will be bounded continuous and nonpositive. 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