# Introduction to turbulence/Statistical analysis/Generalization to the estimator of any quantity

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Similar relations can be formed for the estimator of any function of the random variable say $f(x)$. For example, an estimator for the average of $f$ based on $N$ realizations is given by:

 $F_{N}\equiv\frac{1}{N}\sum^{N}_{n=1}f_{n}$ (2)

where $f_{n}\equiv f(x_{n})$. It is straightforward to show that this estimator is unbiased, and its variability (squared) is given by:

 $\epsilon^{2}_{F_{N}}= \frac{1}{N} \frac{var \left\{f \left( x \right) \right\}}{\left\langle f \left( x \right) \right\rangle^{2} }$ (2)

Example: Suppose it is desired to estimate the variability of an estimator for the variance based on a finite number of samples as:

 $var_{N} \left\{x \right\} \equiv \frac{1}{N} \sum^{N}_{n=1} \left( x_{n} - X \right)^{2}$ (2)

(Note that this estimator is not really very useful since it presumes that the mean value, $X$, is known, whereas in fact usually only $X_{N}$ is obtainable).

Let $f=(x-X)^2$ in equation 2.55 so that $F_{N}= var_{N}\left\{ x \right\}$, $\left\langle f \right\rangle = var \left\{ x \right\}$