A lower bound on the Bayesian MSE based on the optimal bias function

  • Authors:
  • Zvika Ben-Haim;Yonina C. Eldar

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa, Israel;Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa, Israel

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A lower bound on the minimum mean-squared error (MSE) in a Bayesian estimation problem is proposed in this paper. This bound utilizes a well-known connection to the deterministic estimation setting. Using the prior distribution, the bias function which minimizes the Cramér-Rao bound can be determined, resulting in a lower bound on the Bayesian MSE. The bound is developed for the general case of a vector parameter with an arbitrary probability distribution, and is shown to be asymptotically tight in both the high and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regimes. A numerical study demonstrates several cases in which the proposed technique is both simpler to compute and tighter than alternative methods.