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Suppose that\({X_1}...{X_n}\)form a random sample from an exponential family for which the p.d.f. or the p.f.\(f\left( {x|\theta } \right)\)is as specified in Exercise 23 of Sec. 7.3. Suppose also that the unknown value of\(\theta \)must belong to an open interval\(\Omega \)of the real line. Show that the estimator\(T = \sum\limits_{i = 1}^n {d\left( {{X_i}} \right)} \)is an efficient estimator. Hint: Show that T can be represented in the form given in Eq. (8.8.15).

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\(T = \sum\limits_{i = 1}^n {d\left( {{X_i}} \right)} \) is an efficient estimator.

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01

Given information

\({X_1}...{X_n}\) be the random samples fro the exponential family with the pdf \(f\left( {x|\theta } \right)\) as follows:

\(f\left( {x|\theta } \right) = a\left( \theta \right)b\left( x \right)\exp \left( {c\left( \theta \right)d\left( x \right)} \right)\)

02

verifying \(T = \sum\limits_{i = 1}^n {d\left( {{X_i}} \right)} \) is an sufficient statistic

Let

\(f\left( {x|\theta } \right) = a\left( \theta \right)b\left( x \right)\exp \left( {c\left( \theta \right)d\left( x \right)} \right)\)

Then

\(\begin{align}\lambda \left( {x|\theta } \right) &= \log \left( {a\left( \theta \right)b\left( x \right)\exp \left( {c\left( \theta \right)d\left( x \right)} \right)} \right)\\ &= \log a\left( \theta \right) + \log b\left( x \right) + c\left( \theta \right)d\left( x \right)\end{align}\)

Differentiating\(\lambda \left( {x|\theta } \right)\)with respect to\(\theta \)as

\({\lambda ^{'}}\left( {x|\theta } \right) = \frac{{{a^{'}}\left( \theta \right)}}{{a\left( \theta \right)}} = {c^{'}}\left( \theta \right)d\left( x \right)\)

Therefore

\(\begin{align}{\lambda ^{'}}\left( {x|\theta } \right) &= \sum\limits_{i = 1}^n {{\lambda ^{'}}\left( {x|\theta } \right)} \\ &= n\frac{{{a^{'}}\left( \theta \right)}}{{a\left( \theta \right)}} + {c^{'}}\left( \theta \right)\sum\limits_{i = 1}^n {d\left( {{x_i}} \right)} \end{align}\)

If we choose,

\(u\left( \theta \right) = \frac{1}{{{c^{'}}\left( \theta \right)}}\) and

\(v\left( \theta \right) = \frac{{n{a^{'}}\left( \theta \right)}}{{a\left( \theta \right){c^{'}}\left( \theta \right)}}\)

Then from the equation of cramer rao inequality, that is

\(Var\left( T \right) \ge \frac{{{{\left( {{m^{'}}\left( \theta \right)} \right)}^{2}}}}{{nI\left( \theta \right)}}\) satisfy with

\(T = \sum\limits_{i = 1}^n {d\left( {{X_i}} \right)} \) . therefore the estimator \(T = \sum\limits_{i = 1}^n {d\left( {{X_i}} \right)} \) is an efficient estimator.

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