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Principles of Statistics
Part II, 2020

State and prove the Cramér-Rao inequality for a real-valued parameter θ\theta. [Necessary regularity conditions need not be stated.]

In a general decision problem, define what it means for a decision rule to be minimax.

Let X1,,XnX_{1}, \ldots, X_{n} be i.i.d. from a N(θ,1)N(\theta, 1) distribution, where θΘ=[0,)\theta \in \Theta=[0, \infty). Prove carefully that Xˉn=1ni=1nXi\bar{X}_{n}=\frac{1}{n} \sum_{i=1}^{n} X_{i} is minimax for quadratic risk on Θ\Theta.