Biometrika 1969 56(2):361-365; doi:10.1093/biomet/56.2.361
© 1969 by Biometrika Trust
An empirical Bayes smoothing technique
GLEN H. LEMON and
RICHARD G. KRUTCHKOFF
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Empirical Bayes procedures generally require the estimation of marginal probabilities. Maritz (1996) showed that the usual estimator for a discrete probability smoothing the estimators of discrete probabilities. Here we present a general procedure for smoothing probabilities and apply it to the Poisson situation.

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