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Bounding the optimal precision in parameter estimation tasks is of central importance for technological applications. In the regime of a small number of measurements, or that of low signal-to-noise ratios, the meaning of common frequentist…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Valentin Gebhart , Manuel Gessner , Augusto Smerzi

Estimation under model misspecification arises in many signal processing problems, where the assumed observation model deviates from the true data-generating mechanism due to errors or simplifications. The misspecified Cram\'er-Rao bound…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Malaak Khatib , Nadav Harel , Joseph Tabrikian , Tirza Routtenberg

Context. The best precision that can be achieved to estimate the location of a stellar-like object is a topic of permanent interest in the astrometric community. Aims. We analyse bounds for the best position estimation of a stellar-like…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Alex Echeverria , Jorge F. Silva , Rene A. Mendez , Marcos Orchard

In modern radar systems, precise target localization using azimuth and velocity estimation is paramount. Traditional unbiased estimation methods have utilized gradient descent algorithms to reach the theoretical limits of the Cramer Rao…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-24 Shyam Venkatasubramanian , Sandeep Gogineni , Bosung Kang , Muralidhar Rangaswamy

This work presents a geometric refinement of the classical Cram\'er--Rao bound (CRB) in the non-asymptotic regime by incorporating curvature-aware corrections based on the second fundamental form associated with the statistical model…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Sunder Ram Krishnan

In this paper, we derive the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) for joint target position and velocity estimation using an active or passive distributed radar network under more general, and practically occurring, conditions than assumed in previous…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Qian He , Jianbin Hu , Rick S. Blum , Yonggang Wu

Bayesian analysis is a framework for parameter estimation that applies even in uncertainty regimes where the commonly used local (frequentist) analysis based on the Cram\'er-Rao bound is not well defined. In particular, it applies when no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Simon Morelli , Ayaka Usui , Elizabeth Agudelo , Nicolai Friis

In this paper, we derive Hybrid, Bayesian and Marginalized Cram\'{e}r-Rao lower bounds (HCRB, BCRB and MCRB) for the single and multiple measurement vector Sparse Bayesian Learning (SBL) problem of estimating compressible vectors and their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Ranjitha Prasad , Chandra R. Murthy

The classical Cram\'er-Rao inequality gives a lower bound for the variance of a unbiased estimator of an unknown parameter, in some statistical model of a random process. In this note we rewrite the statment and proof of the bound using…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2017-10-27 Anthony D. Blaom

-In this paper, we study Bayesian and hybrid Cramer-Rao bounds for the dynamical phase estimation of QAM modulated signals. We present the analytical expressions for the various CRBs. This avoids the calculation of any matrix inversion and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Jianxiao Yang , Benoit Geller , A Wei

The widely used quantum Cramer-Rao bound (QCRB) sets a lower bound for the mean square error of unbiased estimators in quantum parameter estimation, however, in general QCRB is only tight in the asymptotical limit. With a limited number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 Jing Liu , Haidong Yuan

We revisit the problem of computing submatrices of the Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB), which lower bounds the variance of any unbiased estimator of a vector parameter $\vth$. We explore iterative methods that avoid direct inversion of the Fisher…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Paul Tune

This work studies an information-theoretic performance limit of an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system where the goal of sensing is to estimate a random continuous state. Considering the mean-squared error (MSE) for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Daewon Seo

Several current ultra-wide band applications, such as millimeter wave radar and communication systems, require high sampling rates and therefore expensive and energy-hungry analogto-digital converters (ADCs). In applications where cost and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Petre Stoica , Xiaolei Shang , Yuanbo Cheng

We compute a variance lower bound for unbiased estimators in specified statistical models. The construction of the bound is related to the original Cram\'er-Rao bound, although it does not require the differentiability of the model.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-04-13 Thibault Espinasse , Paul Rochet

Bayesian error analysis paves the way to the construction of credible and plausible error regions for a point estimator obtained from a given dataset. We introduce the concept of region accuracy for error regions (a generalization of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-15 Changhun Oh , Yong Siah Teo , Hyunseok Jeong

We consider the problem of estimating a random state vector when there is information about the maximum distances between its subvectors. The estimation problem is posed in a Bayesian framework in which the minimum mean square error (MMSE)…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-10-30 Dave Zachariah , Isaac Skog , Magnus Jansson , Peter Händel

The constrained Cramer-Rao bound (CCRB) is a lower bound on the mean-squared-error (MSE) of estimators that satisfy some unbiasedness conditions. Although the CCRB unbiasedness conditions are satisfied asymptotically by the constrained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Eyal Nitzan , Tirza Routtenberg , Joseph Tabrikian

In many estimation theory and statistical analysis problems, the true data model is unknown, or partially unknown. To describe the model generating the data, parameterized models of some degree are used. A question that arises is which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Nadav E. Rosenthal , Joseph Tabrikian

To achieve the joint active and passive beamforming gains in the reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted millimeter wave system, the reflected cascade channel needs to be accurately estimated. Many strategies have been proposed in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Yiming Liu , Erwu Liu , Rui Wang , Zhu Han , Binyu Lu