Shift-invariant optimal estimator conjecture for distributions on the real line

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Let μ\mu be a distribution on R\mathbb{R}, and consider estimators for the associated location family. An estimator is shift-invariant if shifting every observation by cc shifts the estimate by cc. Shift-invariant optimal estimator conjecture. There is an optimal estimator for μ\mu that is shift-invariant. The conjecture is motivated by examples in which the optimal bounds for general and shift-invariant estimators coincide; the source provides no proof in the general case.

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Aaron Abrams, Sandy Ganzell, Henry Landau, Zeph Landau, James Pommersheim and Eric Zaslow, “Optimal estimators for threshold-based quality measures”, arXiv:2507.08811 (2025).

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