Exponential sampling stopped by a data-dependent coin
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For independent exponential observations of rate , stopping after observation with known probability gives a complete-data likelihood proportional to . Its minimal sufficient statistic is by the parameter-free likelihood-ratio criterion. If only the last value is recorded, its density instead is . The stopping rule therefore changes the coarsened-data inference even though it adds no complete-data likelihood factor involving .
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