Nonexistence conjecture for an unbiased photon transfer conversion gain estimator

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Let Y1Y_1 and Y2Y_2 be independent gamma random variables with densities

fYi(yi)=βiαiΓ(αi)yiαi1eβiyi,i=1,2,f_{Y_i}(y_i)=\frac{\beta_i^{\alpha_i}}{\Gamma(\alpha_i)}y_i^{\alpha_i-1}e^{-\beta_i y_i},\quad i=1,2,

and let κi=αi/βi\kappa_i=\alpha_i/\beta_i. An estimator T(Y1,Y2)\mathscr T(Y_1,Y_2) is required to satisfy

R+×R+T(y1,y2)fY1(y1)fY2(y2)d(y1,y2)=1κ1κ2.\int_{\mathbb R^+\times\mathbb R^+}\mathscr T(y_1,y_2)f_{Y_1}(y_1)f_{Y_2}(y_2)\,\mathrm d(y_1,y_2)=\frac{1}{\kappa_1-\kappa_2}.

Nonexistence conjecture. There is no estimator T\mathscr T satisfying this equation when both κ1\kappa_1 and κ2\kappa_2 are unknown.

The claim concerns whether an unbiased estimator exists for the photon transfer conversion gain estimand τ=(κ1κ2)1\tau=(\kappa_1-\kappa_2)^{-1}. The preceding discussion establishes that inversion with respect to one parameter is possible when κ1\kappa_1 is known, but describes the remaining inversion as intractable; no resolution of the unknown-parameter case is supplied here.

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Primary source

Aaron Hendrickson, “A novel approach to photon transfer conversion gain estimation”, arXiv:2106.14958 (2021).

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