Sufficiency and Partitions of the Class of all Possible Discrete Distributions

Authors
Meeden, Glen
Citation
Meeden, Glen, Sufficiency and Partitions of the Class of all Possible Discrete Distributions, American statistician , 40(1), 1986, pp. 42-44
Journal title
American statistician → ACNP
ISSN journal
00031305
Volume
40
Issue
1
Year of publication
1986
Pages
42 - 44
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
For discrete statistical models it is shown that any statistic induces a partition of the set of all possible distributions defined on the sample space.This partition identifies the subsets of the parameter space for which the statistic is sufficient.