Tag: bias
Concepts
Interview Questions
- Biased forever, yet still consistent
- The jackknife, estimating bias by leaving one out
- Averaging then inverting is not inverting then averaging
- The square of an unbiased mean is not unbiased
- Your variance estimate is unbiased, is your volatility estimate?
- MLE for an exponential rate, and its hidden bias
- MLE for a Poisson mean
- MLE for a uniform's upper endpoint
- MLE of a normal variance when the mean is known
- MLE for a normal distribution's mean and variance
- The German tank problem
- MLE of a shifted exponential threshold
- Estimating both ends of a uniform
- The biased MLE of Uniform(0, θ)