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Considerable effort has gone into the study of minimum variance unbiased estimators, though it has been complained that the search for such ‘paragons’ has been largely misguided. In particular instances, such estimators may have unacceptable, not to say ridiculous, properties.
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Beaumont, G.P. (1980). Elementary decision theory and Bayesian methods. In: Intermediate Mathematical Statistics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5794-7_4
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