Estimation with Inadequate Information
信息不足时的估计
As a possible explanation for the existence of absurd UMVU estimators, a class of estimation problems is defined: estimating the probability of an “unobservable” event, for example, estimating the probability of an event of interest occurring over a long period of time from observations over a much shorter period. It is pointed out that in typical cases of this kind, no reasonable unbiased estimator can exist. Consideration of the maximum likelihood estimator suggests the…