Sufficient Statistic/rao-blackwell Theorem

Famous quotes containing the words sufficient and/or theorem:

“Parents vary in their sense of what would be suitable repayment for creating, sustaining, and tolerating you all those years, and what circumstances would be drastic enough for presenting the voucher. Obviously there is no repayment that would be sufficient . . . but the effort to call in the debt of life is too outrageous to be treated as anything other than a joke.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)

“To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.”
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