Abstract
A conjecture of Hanurav (1968), that subject only to a mild restriction, any arbitrary estimate is admissible in the class of all unbiased estimates of its expectation (which is a population function) is shown to be false.
Citation
V. M. Joshi. "Admissibility of Arbitrary Estimates as Unbiased Estimates of Their Expectations in a Finite Population." Ann. Math. Statist. 42 (2) 839 - 841, April, 1971. https://doi.org/10.1214/aoms/1177693445
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