On the lower bounds for mean square error of empirical bayes estimators

The usual empirical Bayes setting is considered with θ being a shift or a scale parameter. A class of empirical Bayes estimators of a function b(θ) is proposed. The properties of the estimates are studied and mean square errors are calculated. The lower bounds are constructed for mean square errors of the empirical Bayes estimators over the class of all empirical Bayes estimators of b(θ). The results are applied to the case b(θ)=θ. The examples of the upper and lower bounds for mean square error are presented for the most popular families of conditional distributions. Added to the English translaion.