The information available in small samples
- 1 December 1936
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
- Vol. 32 (4) , 560-566
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305004100019290
Abstract
When a probability distribution is specified by more than one parameter, the statistical information in a sample on an unknown α will usually depend on the values of the other unknowns. For large samples where the joint distribution of the estimates tends to normality, and the efficiency of the estimation to a maximum, little theoretical difficulty exists. In a discussion(1) of the more general theory of small samples, I have stressed the importance of properties of sufficiency.Keywords
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