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Methods for deriving empirical Bayes estimators are generally available. Corresponding general techniques for assessing the performance of these estimators are not widely developed yet, however. In this paper we provide a general procedure for assessing and comparing the performance of the empirical Bayes estimators and other estimators in a given data set.
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Maritz, J.S., Lwin, T. Assessing the performance of empirical bayes estimators. Ann Inst Stat Math 44, 641–657 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00053395
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