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Sufficient statistics and minimum variance estimates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

C. Radhakrishna Rao
Affiliation:
King's CollegeCambridge

Extract

Let the probability density of observations be denoted by φ(x | θ), where x stands for the variables and θ for the parameters. A function t of the observations is called an unbiased estimate of the function ψ(θ) of the parameters if

where dx stands for the product of differentials.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1949

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