Asymptotically normal but biased estimator

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This is the problem 2.11 from Lehman book "Theory of point estimation" 2-nd edition.

Construct a sequence $\{\delta_{n}\}$ of estimators of $g(\theta)$, satisfying

$$ \sqrt{n}[\delta_{n} - g(\theta)]\stackrel{d}{\to}\mathcal{N}[0,v(\theta)], \; v>0, $$

but for which the bias $b_{n}(\theta) = E[\delta_{n}] - g(\theta)$ does not tend to zero.

By another words, asymptotic normality does not guaranty that $\{\delta_{n}\}$ is unbiased or even that its bias tends to zero (p 439).