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104<br />

12. Biased estimation; Pitman closeness<br />

• Biased estimation. In general, to compare estimators<br />

1 2 of () with variances 2 () and<br />

biases () welookattheARE<br />

2 1<br />

= lim ( 1)<br />

( 2 ) = lim ( 1)+ 2 ( 1 )<br />

( 2 )+ 2 ( 2 ) <br />

In the examples studied previously 2 was of<br />

order ( −2 ) and the ARE reduced to a comparison<br />

of the limit<strong>in</strong>g, or asymptotic, variances. We<br />

look below at an example <strong>in</strong> which and 2<br />

are of the same order, and <strong>in</strong> which 2 plays a<br />

significant role, asymptotically. First we look at<br />

another measure of performance of an estimator.<br />

• A related measure of accuracy is ‘Pitman closeness’<br />

(| − | ≤ ) for specified ; onewants<br />

this probability to be large. For an asymptotic<br />

treatment we would typically have to normalize,<br />

and consider someth<strong>in</strong>g like lim ( √ | − | ≤ ).

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