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Summary In the empirical Bayes binomial model of Morris (1983), the Bayes estimate of the binomial proportion parameter has a shrinkage pattern with prior mean p and shrinkage factor b as the hyperparameters. Formulating an empirical Bayes estimate, Morris employs the method of moments to estimate these two hyperparameters. This paper investigates the efficiency/asymptotic efficiency of these estimates...