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Published in final edited form as: J Agric Biol Environ Stat. 2014 Sep;19(3):319–337. doi: 10.1007/s13253-014-0173-2

Table 3.

Comparison of the average bias and MSE of the sample average estimators and the empirical Bayes estimators.

Simulations	Variables	Bias ×10⁴		MSE ×10³

		Sample Average	Empirical Bayes	Sample Average	Empirical Bayes

Alfalfa Dataset	h_j	−830	−2.76	111	31.6
	l_j	−827	1.18	109	31.7
	m_j	−2.02	−1.97	83.1	28.1

Maize Dataset	h_j	−252	1.44	39.5	7.10
	l_j	−254	0.212	38.8	7.10
	m_j	0.697	0.616	30.9	4.89

Probability Models	h_j	−596	47.2	55.0	20.8
	l_j	−598	44.5	55.6	20.8
	m_j	0.945	1.36	41.5	15.8