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• Return to Exercise 48 on p. 324
  • Use Jacobian technique, see p. 313
• Estimation
• Methods for evaluating the goodness of estimators
  • Bias
  • Mean square error
  • Bound on the error of estimation
• Common unbiased point estimators, see p. 397

Please read sections 8.4 and 8.5 for class on Wednesday.