Communications in Information and Systems

Volume 7 (2007)

Number 3

When the Cramér-Rao Inequality Provides No Information

Pages: 272 – 272

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/CIS.2007.v7.n3.a3

Author

Steven J. Miller

Abstract

We investigate a one-parameter family of probability densities (related to the Pareto distribution, which describes many natural phenomena) where the Cramér-Rao inequality provides no information.

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Published 1 January 2007