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Homework for 2/10 Due 2/19

1. [8-69] Use the factorization theorem (Theorem A in Section 8.8.1) to
n
X
conclude that T =
Xi is a sufficient statistic when the Xi are an i.i.d.
i=1

sample from a geometric distribution.

The joint pmf of the random sample X1 , . . . , Xn from a geometric distribution with parameter p is
Pn

f (x1 , . . . , xn |p) = pn (1 p)

i=1

xi n

= pn (1 p)T (x1 ,...,xn )n 1.

Therefore the Factorization Theorem, with

g(t, p) = pn (1 p)tn
tells us that T =

n
X

and

h(x1 , . . . , xn ) = 1,

Xi is a sufficient statistic for the geometric distribu-

i=1

tion.

2. [8-71] Let X1 , . . . , Xn be an i.i.d. sample from a distribution with the

density function
f (x|) =

,
(1 + x)+1

0 < < and 0 x < .

Find a sufficient statistic for .

Since the pdf satisfies
f (x|) = exp { log(1 + x) + log log(1 + x)} ,

0x<

this distribution belongs to 1-parameter exponential family and a sufficient

statistics is
n
n
X
X
T (Xi ) =
log(1 + Xi ).
i=1

i=1

3. [8-73] Find a sufficient statistic for the Rayleigh density,

x ex2 /(22 ) , x 0
.
f (x|) = 2
0,
otherwise
The pdf of the Rayleigh density satisfies




exp 1 x2 2 log + log x , x 0

22
f (x|) =
.

0,
otherwise
It follows that the Rayleigh distribution is a member of 1-parameter exponential family with
1
,
22
d() = 2 log ,

c() =

T (x) = x2 ,
S(x) = log x.

It follows that a sufficient statistic is

n
n
X
X
Xi2
T (Xi ) =
i=1

i=1

for a random sample X1 , . . . , Xn .

4. [8-74] Show that the binomial distribution belongs to the exponential
family (the parameter n is assumed to be known).
The pmf of X Bin(n, p) (n is assumed to be known) is
 
n x
f (x|n, p) =
p (1 p)nx
x

 
p
n
= exp x log
+ n log(1 p) + log
.
1p
x
It follows that Bin(n, p) with known n is a member of 1-parameter exponential family with
p
c() = log
,
T (x) = x,
1p
 
n
d() = n log(1 p),
S(x) = log
.
x
Remark: 1-parameter exponential family has pdf/pmf of the form
(
exp {c()T (x) + d() + S(x)} , x A
f (x|) =
.
0,
x
/A