Abstract
Point estimation concerns making inferences about a quantity that is unknown but about which some information is available, e.g., a fixed quantity θ for which we have n imperfect measurements x1,…,xn) The theory of estimation deals with how best to use the information (combine the values x1,…,xn) to obtain a single number, estimate, for θ, say \( \widehat{\theta} \). Interval estimation does not reduce the available information to a single number and is a special case of hypothesis testing. This entry deals only with point estimation.
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Nerlove, M., Diebold, F.X. (2018). Estimation. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_627
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