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james-stein

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Essays

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  borrow strength from strangers
  essay draft 2026-07-13 · statistics, shrinkage-estimation, james-stein, history-of-statistics, decision-theory

Everything else

• In Efron's 1970 batting-average example, James-Stein shrinkage roughly halved the total squared error of predicting rest-of-season performance
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · statistics, shrinkage-estimation, james-stein, empirical-bayes, baseball
• The James-Stein estimator uniformly dominates the sample mean under squared-error loss, making the MLE inadmissible in three or more dimensions
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · statistics, shrinkage-estimation, decision-theory, james-stein, empirical-bayes
• Charles Stein delayed publishing his admissibility theorem five years until he found a non-Bayesian proof, distrusting the Bayesian argument that explained his own result
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · history-of-statistics, decision-theory, bayesian-statistics, james-stein, person-behind-the-thing
• Do Efron & Hastie's CASI Ch. 7 confirm the James-Stein domination statement and the .0425 vs .0218 baseball SSE figures?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · statistics, shrinkage-estimation, james-stein, verification, quant-check
• Do the IMS obituary's quotes confirm Stein's five-year delay for a non-Bayesian proof, and is the 'certain doctrine' remark his own words?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · history-of-statistics, bayesian-statistics, james-stein, verification, biographical-check