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U statistics are a large and important class of statistics. Indeed, any U-statistic (with finite variance) is the non-parametric minimum variance estimator of its expectation \( \theta \). Many common statistics and estimators are either U-statistics or approximately so.
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Bose, A., Chatterjee, S. (2018). Introduction to U-statistics. In: U-Statistics, Mm-Estimators and Resampling. Texts and Readings in Mathematics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2248-8_1
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