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Chapman-Robbins bound en · NOUN

Etymology

Named after Douglas Chapman and Herbert Robbins, who discovered it in 1951, independently of the original (1950) discovery by John Hammersley.

Meanings

  1. A lower bound on the variance of estimators of a deterministic parameter; a generalization of the Cramér-Rao bound, it is both tighter and more widely applicable, but usually harder to compute.

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Synonyms

Hammersley-Chapman-Robbins bound