Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis 
Volume 5 (1992), Issue 2, Pages 167-175
doi:10.1155/S1048953392000145

Convergence rates for empirical Bayes two-action problems: the uniform U(0,θ) distribution

Mohamed Tahir

Temple University, Department of Statistics, Philadelphia 19122, PA, USA

Received 1 September 1991; Revised 1 December 1991

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to study the convergence rates of a sequence of empirical Bayes decision rules for the two-action problems in which the observations are uniformly distributed over the interval (0,θ), where θ is a value of a random variable having an unknown prior distribution. It is shown that the proposed empirical Bayes decision rules are asymptotically optimal and that the order of associated convergence rates is O(n−α), for some constant α, 0<α<1, where n is the number of accumulated past observations at hand.