Properties of estimators
Especially in the following chapters, designations such as bias or asymptotic unbiasedness will be used repeatedly. These expressions are used to describe properties of an estimator. These terms are explained briefly here.
Assumption: The distribution of the sample elements has an unknown parameter . A function t that approximately estimates from the sample values the parameter is given by:
Generally a function of a sample, ...
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