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The Cram\'er-Rao inequality on singular statistical models I

Statistics Theory 2017-07-21 v2 Probability Statistics Theory

Abstract

We introduce the notion of the essential tangent bundle of a parametrized measure model and the notion of reduced Fisher metric on a (possibly singular) 2-integrable measure model. Using these notions and a new characterization of kk-integrable parametrized measure models, we extend the Cram\'er-Rao inequality to 22-integrable (possibly singular) statistical models for general φ\varphi-estimations, where φ\varphi is a VV-valued feature function and VV is a topological vector space. Thus we derive an intrinsic Cram\'er-Rao inequality in the most general terms of parametric statistics.

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@article{arxiv.1703.09403,
  title  = {The Cram\'er-Rao inequality on singular statistical models I},
  author = {Jürgen Jost and Hông Vân Lê and Lorenz Schwachhöfer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.09403},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

v.2: 28 p, New subsections: 4.4, 4.5, 4.6

R2 v1 2026-06-22T18:58:53.418Z