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by naftaliharris 3364 days ago
You probably wouldn't expect them to. But the same kind of Stein phenomenon holds under a much broader set of conditions, including arbitrary covariance matrices and arbitrary quadratic loss, (see e.g. [1]). It's a very general phenomenon!

[1] https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aos/1176345691