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Cramér–Rao Lower Bound and UMVUE for $\frac1{\theta}$
Problem: Find the UMVUE of $\frac1\theta$ for a random sample from the population distribution with density $$f(x;\theta)=\theta x^{\theta-1}$$ and show that its variance reaches the Cramér–Rao lower ...
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Proof Sample Variance is Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimator for Unknown Mean
I am trying to prove that the unbiased sample variance is a minimum variance estimator. In this problem I have a Normal distribution with unknown mean (and the variance is the parameter to estimate so ...
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Variance of estimator seemingly lower than CRLB?
While practicing for a mid-term, I came across a question where I was asked to investigate the variance of $\frac{(n+1)Y_{n}}{n}$ where $Y_{n}$ is the largest observation of a random sample of size $n$...
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