Estimating odds and log odds with guaranteed accuracy
Statistics Theory
2025-01-07 v4 Statistics Theory
Abstract
Two sequential estimators are proposed for the odds p/(1-p) and log odds log(p/(1-p)) respectively, using independent Bernoulli random variables with parameter p as inputs. The estimators are unbiased, and guarantee that the variance of the estimation error divided by the true value of the odds, or the variance of the estimation error of the log odds, are less than a target value for any p in (0,1). The estimators are close to optimal in the sense of Wolfowitz's bound.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2404.17705,
title = {Estimating odds and log odds with guaranteed accuracy},
author = {Luis Mendo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.17705},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
18 pages, 3 figures. Minor correction