When a biased estimator wins
You estimate a signal's mean from a single noisy reading with and . The true value happens to be . Compare two estimators by mean-squared error: the unbiased , and the shrink-toward-zero . What is the MSE of the better estimator?
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- - compute both for each estimator.
- ; the shrunk one has MSE .
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8 (± 0.001)
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