Barankin Vector Locally Best Unbiased Estimates

Abstract: The Barankin bound is generalized to the vector case in the mean square error sense. Necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained to achieve the lower bound. To obtain the result, a simple finite dimensional real vector valued generalization of the Riesz representation theorem for Hilbert spaces is given. The bound has the form of a linear matrix inequality where the covariances of any unbiased estimator, if these exist, are lower bounded by matrices depending only on the parametrized probability distributions.