Stein's lemma
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Stein's lemma, ngaran keur ngahargaan ka Charles Stein, may be characterized as a theorem of probability theory that is of interest primarily because of its application to statistical inference -- in particular, its application to James-Stein estimation and empirical Bayes methods.
[édit] Statement of the lemma
Suppose X is a normally distributed random variable with nilai ekspektasi μ and varian σ2. Further suppose g is a function for which the two expectations E( g(X) (X − μ) ) and E( g ′(X) ) both exist (the existence of the expectation of any random variable is equivalent to the finiteness of the expectation of its absolute value). Then
- E(g(X)(X - μ)) = σ2E(g'(X)).
In order to prove this lemma, recall that the probability density function for the normal distribution with expectation 0 and variance 1 is
and that for a normal distribution with expectation μ and varian σ2 is
Then use integration by parts.