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When the Cramer-Rao Inequality provides no information

Statistics Theory 2010-09-15 v1 Statistics Theory

Abstract

We investigate a one-parameter family of probability densities (related to the Pareto distribution, which describes many natural phenomena) where the Cramer-Rao inequality provides no information.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0704.0923,
  title  = {When the Cramer-Rao Inequality provides no information},
  author = {Steven J. Miller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.0923},
  year   = {2010}
}

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10 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Communications in Information and Systems