On nonnegative unbiased estimators

DOI10.1214/15-AOS1311zbMath1321.65015arXiv1309.6473OpenAlexW3104853881MaRDI QIDQ2343962

Pierre E. Jacob, Alexandre H. Thiery

Publication date: 11 May 2015

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.6473

zbMATH Keywords

algorithmMonte Carlo methodsunbiased estimatorsign problemPoisson estimatorBernoulli factory\(f\)-factory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Monte Carlo methods (65C05)

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