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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 ii Paper 1 28K b iii Solution by
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For every estimator, its worst-case risk dominates its average risk under the uniform prior. Since the preceding Bayes estimator minimizes that average,The estimator has risk exactly throughout the interior, so it attains this lower bound. Under either endpoint convention discussed above its supremum over is also . ThusThis constant-risk Bayes argument works also for , when the only observed counts are endpoints and the posterior integrability argument still selects their corresponding decisions.
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