Let φ be a parameter for which there is no unbiased estimator. This note shows that for an arbitrary sequence of estimators T⁽ᵏ⁾, if the biases of T⁽ᵏ⁾ tend to 0 then their variances must tend to ∞.
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Doss et al. (1989) studied this question.
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