10.1 Chapter highlights • Parameter estimation problem formulation • Properties of estimators • Bayes estimation • Minimax estimation • Maximum-likelihood estimation • Comparison of estimators of parameters 10.2 Formulation of the general parameter estimation problem 10.3 Types of estimation problems 10.5 Properties of estimators 10.6 Bayes estimation 10.7 Minimax estimation 10.8 Maximum-likelihood estimation