A Complete Class Theorem for Statistical Problems With Finite Sample Spaces
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finite sample space
admissible procedures
Bayes procedure
estimation
binomial distribution
multinomial distribution
strictly convex loss
squared error loss
maximum likelihood estimate
Statistics and Probability
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This paper contains a complete class theorem (Theorem 3.2) which applies to most statistical estimation problems having a finite sample space. This theorem also applies to many other statistical problems with finite sample spaces. The description of this complete class involves a stepwise algorithm. At each step of the process it is necessary to construct the Bayes procedures in a suitably modified version of the original problem. The complete class is a minimal complete class if the loss function is strictly convex. Some examples are given to illustrate the application of this complete class theorem. Among these is a new result concerning the estimation of the parameters of a multinomial distribution under a normalized quadratic loss function. (See Example 4.5).