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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 ii Paper 4 27J Solution by
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A complete statistic for a family if every measurable with and for all satisfies almost surely under every . It is boundedly complete if the same implication is required only for bounded measurable . Completeness therefore implies bounded completeness.
The vector is multivariate normal with mean zero and covarianceIts determinant is and its inverse is . Hence the joint density isThe Fisher-Neyman factorization theorem gives sufficiency. For minimality use the likelihood-ratio criterion for minimal sufficiency. The density ratio for is independent of precisely whenis constant. Multiplying by shows that its constant would produce a quadratic term on the right whereas the left is linear, so that constant is zero. The remaining coefficients give . Thus is minimal sufficient statistic.
Each is standard normal, so . The integrable, nonzero function has zero expectation for every parameter, proving that is not complete.
By sufficiency, choose a version common to all parameters. The tower property givesOn the event we necessarily have , so there almost surely. This event has positive probability under every parameter because the joint normal density is strictly positive on a ball about the origin. Thus is not identically . The bounded function has zero expectation for every parameter but is not almost surely zero. Consequently
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