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On Bounded Completeness and the L₁-Denseness of Likelihood Ratios

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arxiv 2308.00895 v1 pith:E5ZNPUIM submitted 2023-08-02 math.ST stat.TH

On Bounded Completeness and the L₁-Denseness of Likelihood Ratios

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keywords boundedcompletenessdensenesslikelihoodobservationratiosunbiasedancillarity
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The classical concept of bounded completeness and its relation to sufficiency and ancillarity play a fundamental role in unbiased estimation, unbiased testing, and the validity of inference in the presence of nuisance parameters. In this short note, we provide a direct proof of a little-known result by \cite{Far62} on a characterization of bounded completeness based on an $L^1$ denseness property of the linear span of likelihood ratios. As an application, we show that an experiment with infinite-dimensional observation space is boundedly complete iff suitably chosen restricted subexperiments with finite-dimensional observation spaces are.

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