unbiasing estimators always justified ?
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It is argued that, contrary to common wisdom, unbiasedness is not always a well grounded requirement. It is shown that in many cases, for a given unbiased estimator there is a simply derived biased estimator which yields results closer to the true value.
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It is argued that, contrary to common wisdom, unbiasedness is not always a well grounded requirement. It is shown that in many cases, for a given unbiased estimator there is a simply derived biased estimator which gives results closer to the true value.
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