Course Notes for Math 162: Mathematical Statistics
The Cram¶er-Rao Inequality
Adam Merberg and Steven J. Miller
Contents
1 Description of the Problem 1
2 The Cram¶er-Rao Inequality 2
3 Examples and Exercises 5
A Interchanging Integration and Di®erentiation 7
B The Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality 8
C The Exponential Density 9
D When the Cram¶er-Rao Inequality Provides No Information 9