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Choose a collection of statistical paths through that are differentiable in quadratic mean. A statistical tangent set at is the set of their score functions. In particular each member belongs to , by the mean-zero score identity under quadratic-mean differentiability.
A statistical tangent set records which first-order directions the chosen statistical paths can realize. Its closed linear span in L2 space is the statistical tangent space. The tangent set consists of attainable scores; the tangent space also includes their linear combinations and limits.

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