Cramer-Rao bound

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Summary

The Cramer-Rao bound gives the minimum possible variance of an unbiased estimator of the parameters of a probability distribution. It is used to prove the asymptotic efficiency of the maximum likelihood estimator.

Context

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Goals

  • Prove the Cramer-Rao theorem, which bounds the variance of any unbiased estimator of model parameters.
  • Use the result to compute the asymptotic relative efficiency of an estimator.

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