Relation To Sufficient Statistics
For some parametric families, a complete sufficient statistic does not exist. Also, a minimal sufficient statistic need not exist. (A case in which there is no minimal sufficient statistic was shown by Bahadur in 1957.) Under mild conditions, a minimal sufficient statistic does always exist. In particular, these conditions always hold if the random variables (associated with Pθ ) are all discrete or are all continuous.
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