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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2006 iii Paper 42 4 ii Solution by
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For , integrating the exponential tilt gives the moment-generating functionAt an interior natural parameter this is finite in a neighbourhood of , so differentiation under the integral sign is justified by the nearby exponential moments. Differentiating its logarithm once and twice at zero givesAlternatively the score function is ; its mean zero and its covariance matrix give the same exponential-family derivative identities. For any vector , . In a minimal exponential family this variance is strictly positive whenever , proving strict convexity of the cumulant function. For a general exponential family whose sufficient statistic is , these identities describe the mean and covariance matrix of , rather than necessarily those of itself.
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