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Van Trees inequality

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The van Trees inequality is a Bayesian Cramer--Rao bound. For scalar likelihood information I(θ) and a differentiable prior density π vanishing at its boundary,
∫Eθ​(δ−θ)2π(θ)dθ≥∫I(θ)π(θ)dθ+∫(π′(θ))2/π(θ)dθ1​.
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It follows by integration by parts and the Cauchy--Schwarz inequality applied to the joint likelihood-prior score.

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