Improved Cramer-Rao Inequality for Randomly Censored Data

Author

CR RAO AIMSCS, HYDERABAD, INDIA

10.29252/jirss.17.2.2

Abstract

‎As an application of the improved Cauchy-Schwartz inequality due to Walker (Statist. Probab. Lett. (2017) 122:86-90)‎, ‎we obtain an improved version of the Cramer-Rao inequality for randomly censored data derived by Abdushukurov and Kim (J. Soviet. Math. (1987) pp. 2171-2185)‎. ‎We derive a lower bound of Bhattacharya type for the mean square error of a parametric function based on randomly censored data‎.
 

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Volume 17, Issue 2
December 2018
Pages 1-12
  • Receive Date: 23 July 2022
  • Revise Date: 13 May 2024
  • Accept Date: 23 July 2022