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Linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) estimation is often ill-conditioned, suggesting that unconstrained minimization of the mean square error is an inadequate approach to filter design. To address this, we first develop a unifying…

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This paper derives lower bounds for the mean square errors of parameter estimators in the case of Poisson distributed data subjected to multiple abrupt changes. Since both change locations (discrete parameters) and parameters of the Poisson…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Lucien Bacharach , Mohammed Nabil El Korso , Alexandre Renaux , Jean-Yves Tourneret

We introduce a new CMB temperature likelihood approximation called the Gaussianized Blackwell-Rao (GBR) estimator. This estimator is derived by transforming the observed marginal power spectrum distributions obtained by the CMB Gibbs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Ø. Rudjord , N. E. Groeneboom , H. K. Eriksen , Greg Huey , K. M. Górski , J. B. Jewell

The least squares (LS) estimator and the best linear unbiased estimator (BLUE) are two well-studied approaches for the estimation of a deterministic but unknown parameter vector. In many applications it is known that the parameter vector…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Oliver Lang , Mario Huemer , Markus Steindl

In this lecture note, we show a general property of the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) that quantifies the interdependencies between the parameters in a vector. The presented result is valid for more general models than the additive noise model and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-07 Dave Zachariah , Petre Stoica

This paper investigates the asymptotic behavior of the deterministic and stochastic Cram\'er-Rao Bounds (CRB) for semi-blind channel estimation in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We derive and analyze mathematically…

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Ongoing demand for radio spectrum by commercial wireless services has steadily increased pressure on the frequency bands traditionally reserved for radar. This paper addresses the joint problem of designing non-contiguous radar transmission…

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This paper studies the challenging problem of estimating causal effects from observational data, in the presence of unobserved confounders. The two-stage least square (TSLS) method and its variants with a standard instrumental variable (IV)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Debo Cheng , Ziqi Xu , Jiuyong Li , Lin Liu , Jixue Liu , Thuc Duy Le

This paper studies distance estimation for diffusive molecular communication. The Cramer-Rao lower bound on the variance of the distance estimation error is derived. The lower bound is derived for a physically unbounded environment with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Adam Noel , Karen C. Cheung , Robert Schober

In this work, we study the problem of distributed mean estimation with $1$-bit communication constraints when the variance is unknown. We focus on the specific case where each user has access to one i.i.d. sample drawn from a distribution…

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Optimizing objectives under constraints, where both the objectives and constraints are black box functions, is a common scenario in real-world applications such as scientific experimental design, design of medical therapies, and industrial…

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We consider the problem of estimating the parameter $\fnl$ in the standard local model of primordial CMB non-Gaussianity. We determine the properties of maximum likelihood (ML) estimates and show that the problem is not the typical ML…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Tenorio

In practical nonlinear filtering, the assessment of achievable filtering performance is important. In this paper, we focus on the problem of efficiently approximate the posterior Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) in a recursive manner. By using…

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The mean square error (MSE)-optimal estimator is known to be the conditional mean estimator (CME). This paper introduces a parametric channel estimation technique based on Bayesian estimation. This technique uses the estimated channel…

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We present a new family of information-theoretic generalization bounds within the framework of conditional mutual information (CMI). Most of our results are established based on the leave-$m$-out (L$m$O) cross-validation error, with $m$…

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Reduced-rank approach has been used for decades in robust linear estimation of both deterministic and random vector of parameters in linear model y=Hx+\sqrt{epsilon}n. In practical settings, estimation is frequently performed under…

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We expect that some observers in perceptual signal detection experiments, such as radiologists, will make rational decisions, and therefore ratings from those observers are expected to form a convex ROC curve. However, measured and…

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Unbiased estimators are introduced for averaged Bregman divergences which generalize Stein's Unbiased (Predictive) Risk Estimator, and the minimization of these estimators is proposed as a regularization parameter selection method for…

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We introduce a new small area predictor when the Fay-Herriot normal error model is fitted to a logarithmically transformed response variable, and the covariate is measured with error. This framework has been previously studied by Mosaferi…

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