Counterexample--An inadmissible estimator which is generalized bayes for a prior with "light" tails
Previous work on the problem of estimating a univariate normal mean under squared error loss suggests that an estimator should be admissible if and only if it is generalized Bayes for a prior measure, F, whose tail is "light" in the sense that [integral operator]1[infinity] f*-1(x) DX = [infinity] = [integral operator]-[infinity]-1 f*-1(x) dx, where f* denotes the convolution of F with the normal density. (There is also a precise multivariate analog for this condition.) We provide a counterexample which shows that this suggestion is false unless some further regularity conditions are imposed on F.
Year of publication: |
1979
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Authors: | Brown, Lawrence D. |
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Journal of Multivariate Analysis. - Elsevier, ISSN 0047-259X. - Vol. 9.1979, 2, p. 332-336
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Keywords: | estimating a normal mean generalized Bayes estimators |
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