If the sample standard deviation and standard error are biased estimators, why are they still so useful?
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Why does this excerpt say that unbiased estimation of standard deviation usually isn't relevant?
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Reason for not shrinking the bias (intercept) term in regression
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Why is the sampling distribution of variance a chi-squared distribution?
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How to show that an estimator is consistent?
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Bootstrap methodology. Why resample "with replacement" instead of random subsampling?
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Deviance vs Pearson goodness-of-fit
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Unbiased Estimator of the Standard Error of another Estimator
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Is $\bar X$ a minimum variance unbiased estimator of $\theta$ in an exponential distribution?
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How bias arises in using maximum likelihood to determine the variance of a Gaussian?
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Why are mean and median not equal for asymmetric distributions?
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Proof that regression residual error is an unbiased estimate of error variance
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Why is there a difference between a population variance and a sample variance
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Unbiased estimator of a uniform distribution
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When are confidence intervals useful?
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How does the proof of Rejection Sampling make sense?
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Estimate model with dummies for whole sample versus model without dummies for each subsample
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For what (symmetric) distributions is sample mean a more efficient estimator than sample median?