Abstract:
We show how payoff spaces can be used to study minimum-variance unbiased estimators and give a proof of Barankin's theorem for finite sample spaces and for samples of size one.
Keywords:payoff; space; unbiased; estimator; Barankin (search for similar items in EconPapers) JEL-codes:C13G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers) Date: 2002-09-18 Note: Type of Document - PDF; prepared on Latex; to print on postscript; pages: 35 ; figures: included. 35 pages, pdf