sufficient statistic

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sufficient
adjective
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/səˈfɪʃ.ənt/us
/səˈfɪʃ.ənt/
enough for a ...
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statistic
noun
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/stəˈtɪs.tɪk/us
/stəˈtɪs.tɪk/
information based on a study of the number of times something happens or is present, or other ...
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Each leaf consists of all data sets that identify particular parameter values for thesufficientstatistic.
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Subsequently, we give another example that shows that even portfolio holdings do not always constitute asufficientstatisticfor the future evolution of the system.
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Thus, the characterization of the leaf identifies thesufficientstatistic.
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In such a case, thesufficientstatisticmay be a set of functions, called a "jointlysufficientstatistic".
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The actual data points themselves are not needed, and all sets of data points with the samesufficientstatisticwill have the same distribution.
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Asufficientstatisticfor the experiment is "k", the number of failures.
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For exponential families, thesufficientstatisticis a function of the data that fully summarizes the data "x" within the density function.
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This shows that the update equations can be written simply in terms of the number of data points and thesufficientstatisticof the data.
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Typically, thesufficientstatisticis a simple function of the data, e.g. the sum of all the data points.
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However, under mild conditions, a minimalsufficientstatisticdoes always exist.
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Also, a minimalsufficientstatisticneed not exist.
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However, this is only equivalent to the fiducial method if the pivotal quantity is uniquely defined based on asufficientstatistic.
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Notice that the fiducial distribution is uniquely defined when a singlesufficientstatisticexists.
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And to all intents and purposes these sufficient statistics can be thought of as a probabilistic grammar inherent in the corpus.
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It should be emphasized that the moving-year quantity indexes defined by (42) are sufficient statistics for defining the centered moving-year quantity indexes defined by (44).
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In the end, the way his various models work can be described via sufficient statistics that can be computed from the corpus.
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It remains to characterize these leafs, or sufficient statistics.
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Thus, issues that arise in one context, for example, sufficient statistics, have a foliation analogue in another setting, for example, preferences.
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The procedure is repeated enough times (y100) to obtain sufficient statistics.
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