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Optimal unbiased estimators via convex hulls

Statistics Theory 2019-09-09 v1 Statistics Theory

Abstract

Necessary and sufficient conditions for the square-integrability of recently proposed unbiased estimators are established. A geometric characterization of a distribution that optimizes the performance of these estimators is given. An algorithm based on convex hulls that finds the optimal distribution truncated to its first m terms in time linear in m is described. The algorithm exploits a connection with a recent randomized dimension reduction method and is illustrated via a numerical example.

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@article{arxiv.1909.02876,
  title  = {Optimal unbiased estimators via convex hulls},
  author = {Nabil Kahale},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.02876},
  year   = {2019}
}

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17 pages

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