Dominating decision rule

In decision theory, a decision rule is said to dominate another if the performance of the former is sometimes better, and never worse, than that of the latter.

be two decision rules, and let

( θ , δ )

be the risk of rule

is said to dominate the rule

, and the inequality is strict for some

[1] This defines a partial order on decision rules; the maximal elements with respect to this order are called admissible decision rules.

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