In this paper we discuss the regularity conditions required for the classical Cramér-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) for real-valued (nonrandom unknown) parameters to hold. It is shown that the commonly assumed requirement that the support of the likelihood function (LF) should be independent of the parameter to be estimated can be replaced by the much weaker requirement that the LF is continuous at the end points of its support. Parameter-dependent support of the LF arises when an unknown parameter is observed in the presence of additive measurement noise and the measurement noise pdf has a finite support. It is also pointed out that the commonly cited requirements of absolute integrability of the derivatives of the LF should be replaced by requirements on the log-LF. Some practical examples of finite-support measurement noises, which lead to parameter-dependent likelihood function support, are discussed in light of the above. For the case where the LF is not continuous at the end points of its support, a new modified CRLB — designated as the Cramér-Rao-Leibniz Lower Bound (CRLLB), since it relies on Leibniz integral rule — is presented and its use illustrated. The CRLLB is shown to provide valid bounds for a number of longstanding problems for which the CRLB was shown in the literature as not valid.


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    Title :

    CRLB for likelihood functions with parameter-dependent support and a new bound


    Contributors:
    Bar-Shalom, Y. (author) / Osborne, R. W. (author) / Willett, P. (author) / Daum, F. E. (author)


    Publication date :

    2014-03-01


    Size :

    550755 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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