On Fisher information inequalities in the presence of nuisance parameters |
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Authors: | Vasant P. Bhapkar Cidambi Srinivasan |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky, 817 Patterson Office Tower, 40506-0027 Lexington, KY, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | The existence of a generalized Fisher information matrix for a vector parameter of interest is established for the case where nuisance parameters are present under general conditions. A matrix inequality is established for the information in an estimating function for the vector parameter of interest. It is shown that this inequality leads to a sharper lower bound for the variance matrix of unbiased estimators, for any set of functionally independent functions of parameters of interest, than the lower bound provided by the Cramér-Rao inequality in terms of the full parameter.Supported in part by NSF Grant MCS-8806233.Supported in part by NSF Grants RII-8610671, ATM-9108177 and DMS-9204380. |
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Keywords: | Information matrix partial sufficiency partial ancillarity estimating functions |
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