"Cramér-Rao bound" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Cramér-Rao bounds [plural]
Etymology: Named after Harald Cramér and Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, who (among others) independently derived it in the 1940s. Head templates: {{en-noun|head=Cramér-Rao bound}} Cramér-Rao bound (plural Cramér-Rao bounds)
  1. (estimation theory, statistics) A lower bound on the variance of unbiased estimators of a deterministic (fixed, though unknown) parameter. Wikipedia link: Cramér-Rao bound Categories (topical): Statistics

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