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You estimate the expected returns of assets from their sample means. What does the James–Stein result say about shrinking every estimate toward the grand mean?
- AIt always makes each individual estimate more accurate
- BIt lowers the total mean squared error across all the estimates
- CIt only helps if the true means are all equal
- DIt introduces bias and therefore always raises total error
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