On the Distribution of the Conditional Mean Estimator in Gaussian Noise
Alex Dytso, H. Vincent Poor, Shlomo Shitz Shamai · 2021
Consider the conditional mean estimator of the random variable X from the noisy observation Y = X + N where N is zero mean Gaussian with variance σ2(i.e., E[X|Y]). This work characterizes the probability distribution of E[X|Y]. As part of the proof, several new identities and results are shown. For example, it is shown that the k-th derivative of the conditional expectation is proportional to the (k + 1)-th conditional cumulant. It is also shown that the compositional inverse of the conditional expectation is well-defined and is characterized in terms of a power series by using Lagrange inversion theorem.