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In this paper, we study the preliminary test method in a linear regression model. The preliminary test Liu-type estimator is introduced when it is suspected that the regression parameter may be constraint to a subspace. We also compare the preliminary test Liu-type estimator to the preliminary test estimator, preliminary test ridge estimator and preliminary test Liu estimator in the mean squared error sense.