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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics
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Synonyms: Hammersley-Chapman-Robbins bound
Antonyms: none provided
History
Named after Douglas Chapman and Herbert Robbins, who discovered it in 1951, independently of the original (1950) discovery by John Hammersley.
