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A Cram\'er-Rao inequality for non differentiable models

Statistics Theory 2012-04-13 v1 Statistics Theory

Abstract

We compute a variance lower bound for unbiased estimators in specified statistical models. The construction of the bound is related to the original Cram\'er-Rao bound, although it does not require the differentiability of the model. Moreover, we show our efficiency bound to be always greater than the Cram\'er-Rao bound in smooth models, thus providing a sharper result.

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@article{arxiv.1204.2763,
  title  = {A Cram\'er-Rao inequality for non differentiable models},
  author = {Thibault Espinasse and Paul Rochet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.2763},
  year   = {2012}
}
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