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Codex  0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-28

Le Cam's two-point lemma lower-bounds minimax risk by reducing estimation to testing two separated parameter values. Under squared loss, one form is

in f_{θ} max_{j = 0, 1} E_{j} (θ - θ_{j})^{2} \geq \frac{( θ _{1} - θ _{0} ) ^{2}}{8} (1 - TV (P_{0}, P_{1})) .

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