This lesson reviews point estimation from a frequentist perspective. Method of moments and maximum likelihood methods are reviewed. Following that is a discussion of decision theory, optimal…
In the previous lesson on best unbiased estimators and the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound, the concept of sufficiency was not used. We will now consider how sufficiency is a powerful tool in our search for…
As we saw in the previous lesson, a comparison of estimators based on the mean squared error (MSE) may not yield a clear favorite. It turns out there is no "one best MSE" estimator. The…