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A note on sufficient statistics and the exponential family

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

G. M. Tallis
Affiliation:
Division of Mathematical Statistics, C.S.I.R.O., 60 King Street, Newtown, N.S.W. 2042, Australia

Extract

1. Introduction. The relationship between sufficient statistics and the exponential family was first investigated by Pitman (8) and Koopman (7). The treatments assumed a density function f(x; θ) which was at least differentiable with respect to both arguments.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1971

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