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On the estimation of the mean of a random vector

Statistics Theory 2016-07-20 v1 Statistics Theory

Abstract

We study the problem of estimating the mean of a multivariatedistribution based on independent samples. The main result is the proof of existence of an estimator with a non-asymptotic sub-Gaussian performance for all distributions satisfying some mild moment assumptions.

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@article{arxiv.1607.05421,
  title  = {On the estimation of the mean of a random vector},
  author = {Emilien Joly and Gábor Lugosi and Roberto I. Oliveira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.05421},
  year   = {2016}
}