Questions tagged [estimators]
A rule for calculating an estimate of a given quantity based on observed data [Wikipedia].
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Model has higher (and closer to 1) $\beta$, but similar $R^2$ and correlation
I have model one which produces prediction $\hat{y_1}$, later I came up with a new model which produces prediction $\hat{y_2}$. I have ground truth $y$. The models are not regression based but they ...
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Combining information from different quantiles
I have a number of "mostly" Gaussian distributions (in truth a Gauss core and longer tails). I am interested in the width of this distributions.
Given that I do not know the amount of tails ...
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variance of the estimator of unconditional mean of AR(1) process
AR(1) process is defined as: $y_t=c+\phi y_{t-1}+\varepsilon_t$ where $\varepsilon_t$ is IID with mean zero and variance $\sigma^2<\infty$. For a stationary process, i.e. $\phi\ne 0$, the ...
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Are all random variables estimators? [duplicate]
My hand-wavey understanding is a random variable is a function from a domain of possible outcomes in a sample space to a measurable space valued in real numbers.
We might denote a random variable from ...
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confidence intervals for proportions containing a theoretically impossible value (zero)
This is really a hypothetical question not related to an actual issue I have, so this question is just out of curiosity. I'm aware of this other related question What should I do when a confidence ...
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No Existence of Efficient estimator
I need to prove that given $(X_1,...,X_n)$ from the density $$\frac{1}{\theta}x^{\frac{1}{\theta}-1}1_{(0,1)}$$ no efficient estimator exists for $g(\theta)$=$\frac{1}{{\theta}+1}$.
I have shown that ...
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Unbiased Estimator of Nugget Effect
Question: I am trying the measure the nugget effect, which is parameterized by $(1-\lambda)$ in the following variance-covariance used to describe the multivariate normal distribution of my n-...
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How to accurately estimate the probability of a rare event in a large dataset?
I have a dataset of 30,155 names and out of curiosity I verified that the longest name has 68 characters, which is quite big considering the mean and SD were 24.78 and 5.64, respectively. Based on ...
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Calculating the mean and error for correlated measurements involving different estimators and quantiles
My goal is to find a way to report a mean $\pm$ error for different estimators and quantiles of the same distribution (same measurement).
I am measuring the width of a distribution (Gaussian core and ...
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Unbiased and consistent estimator with positive sampling variance as n approaches infinity? (Aronow & Miller) [duplicate]
In Aronow & Miller, "Foundations of Agnostic Statistics", the authors write on p105:
[A]lthough unbiased estimators are not necessarily consistent, any unbiased estimator $\widehat{\...
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Maximum liklihood estimators for simple linear regression with $\sigma^2$ unknown
Suppose that we have the simple linear regression model for the form:
$$Y_i = \beta X_i +\varepsilon_i$$
With the following set of 'classical assumptions' holding:
$E(\varepsilon_i)=0$
$Var(\...
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Sum of asymptotically independent random variables - Convergence
Let $\theta_N=\frac{1}{N}\sum_{i=1}^N \pi_i\cdot g_i$ where $0<\pi_i<1$ and $0<g_i<1/\pi_i$ such that $\theta_N\overset{N\rightarrow \infty}{\rightarrow}\theta$.
If $X_i\sim Ber(\pi_i)$, I ...
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Must maximum likelihood method be applied on a simple random sample or on a realisation?
I guess my trouble is not a big one but here it is: when one applies maximum likelihood, he considers the realization $(x_1, \dots, x_n)$ of a simple random sample (SRS), leading to ML Estimates. But ...
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Asymptotic unbiasedness + asymptotic zero variance = consistency?
Here, Ben shows that an unbiased estimator $\hat\theta$ of a parameter $\theta$ that has an asymptotic variance of zero converges in probability to $\theta$. That is, $\hat\theta$ is a consistent ...
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Is Coefficient of Variation a valid measure of relative efficiency?
I'm wondering if it is always valid to use Coefficient of Variation (CV) to determine relative efficiency of parameter estimators, and to compute statistically equivalent sample sizes based on that ...
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