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Unbiasedness and Bayes Estimation

Statistics Theory 2015-12-14 v1 Statistics Theory

Abstract

Assuming squared error loss, we show that finding unbiased estimators and Bayes estimators can be treated as using a pair of linear operators that operate between two Hilbert spaces. We note that these integral operators are adjoint and then investigate some consequences of this fact.

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@article{arxiv.1512.03508,
  title  = {Unbiasedness and Bayes Estimation},
  author = {Siamak Noorbaloochi and Glen Meeden},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.03508},
  year   = {2015}
}
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