Talk:Admissible decision rule

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Please update this rating as the article progresses, or if the rating is inaccurate. Click to show/hide comments. Please add to or update the comments to suggest improvements to the article. A longer lead and more explanation would help. Geometry guy 01:09, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

... an admissible decision rule is a rule for making a decision that is better in some sense than any other rule that may compete with it.

This sentence seems highly inaccurate to me. First, "in some sense" can be read to mean "in a vague sense," while the intended meaning here is "in a specific sense discussed below."

Second, what do we mean by "better"? Sure, they are better for at least one value of θ, but this doesn't make them universally better.

I have changed the sentence to read:

... an admissible decision rule is a rule for making a decision that is "better" than any other rule that may compete with it, in a specific sense defined below.

--Zvika 14:28, 18 February 2006 (UTC)