Inadmissibility of the uncombined two-stage estimator when additional samples are available (Q1117618)

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    Inadmissibility of the uncombined two-stage estimator when additional samples are available
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4092552

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      Inadmissibility of the uncombined two-stage estimator when additional samples are available (English)
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      Consider the problem of constructing an estimator with a preassigned bound on the risk for a mean of a normal distribution. The paper shows that the usual two-stage estimator is improved on by combined estimators when additional samples taken from distributions with the same mean and different variances are available.
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      preassigned bound on the risk
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      mean of a normal distribution
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      two-stage estimator
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      combined estimators
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      additional samples
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