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Recently, there are some empirical Bayes procedures using NA samples. We point out a key equality which may not hold for NA samples. Thus, the results of those empirical Bayes procedures based on NA samples are dubious
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Liang, T. A comment on “empirical Bayes estimation of the truncation parameter with asymmetric loss function using NA samples”. JAMC 19, 147–149 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02935794
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