Admissibility of estimators of the probability of unobserved outcomes

DOI10.1007/BF02481141MaRDI QIDQ1814441zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Arthur Cohen, Harold B. Sackrowitz

Publication date 25 June 1992

Published in Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02481141

zbMATH Keywords

admissible Bayes estimatorscompletenessconditional probabilities of a new speciesestimating the probability of unobserved outcomesGood's estimatorprobability of new speciesRobbins' estimatorsquared error losssufficiencyUMVUEunconditional probability of a new speciesuniformly minimum mean squared error unbiased estimatoruniformly minimum variance unbiased

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Admissibility in statistical decision theory (62C15)

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