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Q148Section III (Statistics)148 of 190

The MLE beats the UMVUE in MSE for normal variance estimation

Suppose {X1,X2,…,Xn}\{X_1,X_2,\dots,X_n\} is a random sample of size nn from the N(μ,σ2)N(\mu,\sigma^2) distribution, μ∈R,σ2>0\mu\in\mathbb{R}, \sigma^2>0. Suppose σ^n2\hat\sigma_n^2 and TnT_n denote the maximum likelihood estimator and the UMVUE of σ2\sigma^2 respectively. Which of the following statements is correct?

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