past participle of beat the bounds

(computing) Of total system throughput, being limited by the input/output rate, rather than by processing speed of the CPU.

(economics) A situation where nominal interest rates are close or equal to zero.

(archaic) Synonym of I'll be bound (“I am certain”)

plural of zero lower bound

(statistics) A lower bound on the variance of estimators of a deterministic parameter; a generalization of the Cramér-Rao bound, it is both tighter and more widely applicable, but usually harder to compute.

plural of Chapman-Robbins bound

plural of Cramér-Rao bound

(estimation theory, statistics) A lower bound on the variance of unbiased estimators of a deterministic (fixed, though unknown) parameter.

(statistics) Synonym of Chapman-Robbins bound