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In the Gaussian white noise model, estimate a Haar scaling function coefficient by $\int {\varphi }_{J,k}dY$. The resulting Haar projection estimator is an unbiased estimator with independent coefficient errors of variance $1/n$. On each cell it is the observed path increment divided by the cell length. This gives a finite-dimensional estimator without imposing smoothness on the drift.

For independent unbiased estimators $X_i$ of a common mean with known positive variances $v_i$, the linear unbiased estimator with smallest variance has weights $w_i=v_i^{-1}/{\sum }_j{v}_j^{-1}$ and variance $({\sum }_j{v}_j^{-1}{)}^{-1}$. Unbiasedness requires ${\sum }_i{w}_i=1$. Minimizing ${\sum }_i{v}_i{w}_i^2$ by a Lagrange multiplier gives the weights, and the strictly positive diagonal Hessian matrix proves a unique global minimum. This conclusion requires no normality assumption.

Nested Monte Carlo approximates an outer expected value whose integrand contains another expected value. A nonlinear transformation, such as a logarithm, of an inner sample average usually introduces finite-sample bias. Increasing both sample sizes requires suitable integrability controls to establish consistency; an unbiased estimator of the inner quantity does not make its logarithm unbiased.

For independent and identically distributed random variables $X_1,\dots ,X_n\sim N(\mu ,{\sigma }^2)$, the maximum-likelihood estimators areThe first is unbiased, while $\mathbb{E}{\hat{\sigma }}^2=(n-1){\sigma }^2/n$.

In simple linear regression with a nonconstant predictor,

For the zero-truncated Poisson distribution, $21_{\{Y\text{ even}\}}$ is the unique integrable nonrandomized unbiased estimator of $p=1-e^{-\theta }$. Indeed unbiasedness gives ${\sum }_{y\ge 1}t(y){\theta }^y/y!=e^{\theta }+e^{-\theta }-2$, and power series coefficients force the parity values. Its variance is $2p-p^2$; clipping it to $1_{\{Y\text{ even}\}}$ gives mean squared error $p/2$, strictly smaller for $0<p<1$.