Probability

Continue our previous post of computing the MSE of sample standard deviation. We want to have higher order expansion of $E(S_n)$. The algebric computation is a bit tedious, we will use sympy to help us.

In a previous post, we have discussed the MSE of sample variance. One could argue that we should compute the MSE of the sample standard deviation as sample s.d. has the same unit as the measurements.

In introductory statistics courses, we often focus on unbiased estimators such as the sample variance, $$S^2 = \frac{\sum(X_i - \bar X)^2}{n - 1}$$ rather than a more initiative estimator $$ \hat \sigma^2 = \frac{\sum(X_i - \bar X)^2}{n}.

It is well known that $\bar X^2$ is a biased estimator for $\mu^2$, but how about its variance? Before we start working on $Var(\bar X^2)$, let’s recall that $\bar X$ is an unbiased estimator for $\mu$, i.

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