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Re:Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off... by 1e-9 on Saturday August 03, 2019 @04:06AM (#20599226)
An unbiased estimator is one whose expected value equals the true value. Its sampling distribution can be asymmetrical with median not equal to the true value. You seem to be referring to a median-unbiased estimator.
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Re:Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off... by spenczar5 on Saturday August 03, 2019 @03:42PM (#20602244)
You are correct, of course. It’s too late for me to correct my comment; I slipped up while trying to de-technicalize the definition. Thanks for the correction.
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