A Complete Class Theorem for Estimating a Noncentrality Parameter

Abstract

In statistical decision theory, an important question is to characterize the admissible rules. In this paper, we establish complete class theorems for estimating the noncentrality parameter of noncentral chi-square and noncentral $F$ distributions under squared error loss. Under a minor assumption, any admissible estimator must be a generalized Bayes rule. Using this result, we prove that the positive part of the UMVUE is inadmissible.