James-Stein estimator

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James-Stein estimator

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Etymology Developed by Charles Stein and Willard James.

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Mathematics, Sciences, Statistics A particular estimator of the mean boldsymbol θ:=(θ₁,θ₂,…θₘ) for a multivariate random variable boldsymbol Y:=(Y_1,Y_2,…Y_m).

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