A study is made of the simple empirical Bayes estimators proposed by Robbins (1956). These estimators are compared with `best' conventional estimators in terms of ...

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As with all probability distributions, the Normal Distribution describes how the values of your data are distributed. Subsequently, it is one of the most important probability distributions in ...