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- From: wangj@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jie Wang )
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- Subject: Question on ratio estimate
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- Date: 3 Sep 92 03:00:14 GMT
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- Hi, there, could someone out there help me with the following
- ratio estimate problem ? Any comments and/or references are
- appreciated. Now the problem:
-
- Suppose {X(i)} and {Y(i)} are i.i.d. sequences respectively, but
- X(i) and Y(i) may be correlated. Let m(x) and m(y) be the expected
- values of X(i) and Y(i) repectively. We would like to estimate
- m(x)
- R = ----. We know that
- m(y)
-
-
- ^ [ sum_1_to_n X(i) ] / n
- R(n) = -----------------------
- [ sum_1_to_n Y(i) ] / n
-
- is a consistent but biased estimator for R. Does anyone know of
- any RIGOROUS treatment on the variance of this estimator ?
- Particularly, I am interested in some sufficient conditions of X(i),Y(i),
- that imply
- ^
- lim_n_to_infinity n var( R(n) )
-
- E(X**2) E(Y**2) E(X*Y)
- = R**2 { ------- + ------- - 2--------- }.
- m(x)**2 m(y)**2 m(x)*m(y)
-
-
- Comments on more general nonlinear estimator are also welcome.
-
- Thanks a lot.
-
- --J. Wang
-