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Inadmissibility of the usual estimator for the variance of a normal distribution with unknown mean

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Stein, C. Inadmissibility of the usual estimator for the variance of a normal distribution with unknown mean. Ann Inst Stat Math 16, 155–160 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02868569

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