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In this chapter, we will briefly discuss some basic notions and methods of classical statistical estimation. For an in-depth treatment we recommend, for example, [1]. We will start with a discussion of some basic properties of statistical estimators, such as unbiasedness and efficiency.
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Hogg, R.V., McKean, J. W. and Craig, A.T.: Introduction to Mathematical Statistics, 6th edn. Pearson Education Inc. (2005)
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Frommlet, F., Bogdan, M., Ramsey, D. (2016). Appendix B: Basic Methods of Estimation. In: Phenotypes and Genotypes. Computational Biology, vol 18. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5310-8_7
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