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Bayes estimator under squared error loss
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Under
squared error loss
, the
Bayes estimator
is the
posterior mean
.
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Bayes estimator under squared error loss
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Bayes estimator under squared error loss
For
X
∣
θ
∼
N
p
(
θ
,
I
p
)
and
θ
∼
N
p
(
0
,
c
2
I
p
)
, the posterior is
θ
∣
X
∼
N
p
(
1
+
c
2
c
2
X
,
1
+
c
2
c
2
I
p
)
.
(1)
The
Bayes estimator
under
quadratic loss
is the
posterior mean
and its
Bayes risk
is the trace of the posterior
covariance
,
p
c
2
/
(
1
+
c
2
)
.
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