Stein's paradox is impossible in problems with finite sample space

DOI10.1214/AOS/1176345893zbMATH Open0545.62009OpenAlexW2015078372MaRDI QIDQ797231FDOQ797231

Authors: Sam Gutmann 

Publication date: 1982

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176345893

zbMATH Keywords

finite sample spaceStein's paradox

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Admissibility in statistical decision theory (62C15)

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• Admissible estimation, Dirichlet principles and recurrence of birth-death chains on \({\mathbb{Z}}^ p_+\)
• An empirical bayes estimate of multinomial probabilities

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