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A Bayes but Not Classically Sufficient Statistic

D. Blackwell, R. V. Ramamoorthi

The Annals of Statistics · 1982 · Volume 10 · Issue 3

DOI: 10.1214/aos/1176345895

Abstract

In a Borel setting, every classically sufficient statistic is Bayes sufficient, but not vice versa. The example is a hypothesis testing problem in which Bayesians, but not classicists, can achieve zero error probabilities.

Keywords

62B20, 62F15, Bayes, Sufficient statistic

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