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Asymptotic Methods in Statistical Inference - Statistics Centre

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194<br />

This is a convex function of which is m<strong>in</strong>imized<br />

by<br />

∗ =<br />

so ∗ ∈ [0 1] iff<br />

³ 1<br />

2<br />

− ´<br />

³ 1<br />

2<br />

− ´<br />

+ ³ 2<br />

1<br />

− ´;<br />

≤ m<strong>in</strong> ( 1 2 2 1 ) <br />

and<strong>in</strong>particularif ≤ 0.<br />

The m<strong>in</strong>imum variance is, with 1 =(1 1) 0 ,<br />

³<br />

2 ∗ = 1 1 − <br />

2´<br />

1 0 Σ −1 1 = 1 22 2<br />

1 2 − 2 1 2 + 2<br />

2 ≤ m<strong>in</strong> ³ 1 2 2´ 2 <br />

The reduction <strong>in</strong> variance is shown by<br />

³ 1<br />

2<br />

− ´2<br />

2 ∗ = 2 1 − 2 1 2 2<br />

1 0 Σ −1 1 ·|Σ|<br />

³ 2<br />

1<br />

− ´2<br />

2 ∗ = 2 2 − 2 1 2 2<br />

1 0 Σ −1 1 ·|Σ|<br />

(Why is this not a contradiction when ˆ 1 is already<br />

a m<strong>in</strong>imum variance estimator?)

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