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Shrinkage Estimation and the James-Stein Estimator

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intermediate (6/10)state theorem
The James-Stein estimator shrinks the sample mean toward the origin and dominates the MLE in mean squared error when estimating a multivariate Gaussian mean. What dimension is required for this dominance?