Admissible estimation of the binomial parameter n

DOI10.1214/AOS/1176350185MaRDI QIDQ1820522zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Soltan Mohammad Sadooghi-Alvandi

Publication date 1986

Published in The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176350185

zbMATH Keywords

admissible estimatorbinomial distributionHodges and Lehmann techniqueinadmissiblequadratic loss

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Admissibility in statistical decision theory (62C15) Point estimation (62F10)

Review text

Let a random variable x have a binomial distribution B(n,p) with known \(p\in (0,1)\) and unknown \(n\in \{1,2,...\}\). It is shown that the estimator T for n given by \[ T(0)=-(1-p)/(p \ln p),\quad T(x)=x/p,\quad x=1,2,... \] is admissible under quadratic loss.

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