An Ancillarity Paradox in the Estimation of Multinomial Probabilities
多项概率估计中的辅助统计量悖论
Let X be a multinomial (n, p) variable, where n is an ancillary statistic. In Section 2, it is shown that the minimax estimator of p for fixed sample size n is not minimax for squared error loss. In Section 3, it is shown that the minimax estimator of p for fixed sample size n is still minimax for relative squared error loss.