An Illuminating Counterexample
Statistics Theory
2007-06-13 v2 Statistics Theory
Abstract
We give a visually appealing counterexample to the proposition that unbiased estimators are better than biased estimators.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0206006,
title = {An Illuminating Counterexample},
author = {Michael Hardy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0206006},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
6 pages, LaTeX, To appear in the American Mathematical Monthly