How to Compute the Mean of a Non-linear Estimator?

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Hi,
let's suppose we are given N statistically independent samples x_1,\ldots,x_n from a certain distribution f_X(x;\theta) depending on a parameter \theta.
We are also given an estimator for \theta defined as follows:

\hat{\theta}}(N) = \min\{ x_i \\ : \\ i=1..N \}

How am I supposed to compute E\{ \hat{\theta}(N) \}?

I tried to apply the definition of mean-value as follows, but I can't go any further:

\int_{\mathbb{R}}\ldots\int_{\mathbb{R}} \min\{ x_1,\ldots,x_N \} \\ f_X(x_1)\ldots f_X(x_N)dx_1\ldots dx_N

Any idea?
 
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Get the pdf of the minimum, and then compute the expected value with respect to that.
 
Thanks.
I did as you suggested and succesfully solved the problem.
 
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