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A Note on Unbiased Bayes Estimates

01 January 1988

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Suppose x and y are random variables that satisfy both E(x|y)=y and E(y|x_=x. If we think of x as an observation and y as a parameter, than the first relation says that the parameter y is the mean of x, while the second says that the Bayes estimate of this parameter is unbiased.