a b s t r a c tThe paper develops a general class of shrinkage estimators for estimating the normal mean, which dominates the sample mean in three or higher dimensions under a general divergence loss. In the process, the earlier works of James and Stein [11] and Efron and Morris [5] are generalized considerably.
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