Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 ii Paper 3 28L b ii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Let be any decision rule. For every ,because is the infimum of the integrated risk under . Taking the lower limit givesThe given rule has constant risk , and hence worst-case risk exactly . It attains this universal lower bound and is therefore minimax. This is the constant-risk limit-of-Bayes-risk criterion.