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Not unless n=1 (sorry couldn't resist). Not sure why you're asking this but there do exist f(n,min(X_i)) that work for given distributions. (That is funtions of n and min(X_i) that work). So given only the mean (edit meant min here) and a parametric form of a distribution you can get an unbiassed estimate of the mean. (I think [(n+1)/2]*min(X_i) works for a Uniform(0,theta) for example.

Of course these are going to be much worse (higher variance) estimators than the arithmetic mean because you've thrown away information (the other data).

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Not unless n=1 (sorry couldn't resist). Not sure why you're asking this but there do exist f(n,min(X_i)) that work for given distributions. (That is funtions of n and min(X_i) that work). So given only the mean and a parametric form of a distribution you can get an unbiassed estimate of the mean. (I think [(n+1)/2]*min(X_i) works for a Uniform(0,theta) for example.

Of course these are going to be much worse (higher variance) estimators than the arithmetic mean because you've thrown away information (the other data).