Inadmissibility of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator in the Sequential Estimation of the Size of a Population
有限总体规模序贯估计中最大似然估计量的不可容许性
For the sequential estimation of the size of a finite population, the maximum likelihood estimator is a commonly used estimator but has no explicit expression. In this paper, it is shown that the maximum likelihood estimator is inadmissible. An estimator which is simple in form and dominates the maximum likelihood estimator asymptotically is proposed.