Solution

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For and , substitution gives
since . Divide by to obtain the upper-truncated normal mean.
For , set , and . Then . Symmetry of the normal density and distribution yields
The ratio is an Inverse Mills ratio. It is positive, and the pooled estimator's conditional bias is therefore
This identity supplies both correction procedures below.

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