A van Trees inequality for estimators on manifolds

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 101, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1814-1825

  Jupp, P E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayes risk; Bias; Cram r Rao inequality; Fisher information; Hessian; Primary; Proper dispersion model; Tensor

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953081318     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2010.03.007     Document Type: Article

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