Uniform minimum variance conditionally unbiased estimator

ID: uniform-minimum-variance-conditionally-unbiased-estimator

A UMVCUE has minimum conditional variance among all estimators unbiased in the selected experiment for every parameter. For independent Gaussian stage estimates with information , continuation , total information and pooled estimate , Rao-Blackwellization of the fresh estimate gives , where . The conditional family has complete sufficient statistic , so the Lehmann–Scheffé theorem establishes the optimum. A conditional-likelihood bias correction does not automatically have this unbiasedness property.

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