Solution

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Let be a bounded function with . A bounded density tilt realizes this direction:
These are nonnegative probability density functions, since . The uniform Taylor expansion of the square root gives
The squared L2 norm of this remainder is , since is bounded. Thus the statistical path is differentiable in quadratic mean with score function .
Conversely every score function is centered by the mean-zero score identity under quadratic-mean differentiability. Choosing all these bounded density tilts therefore gives the statistical tangent set
This is a valid choice of statistical tangent set; it does not assert that every possible score function in the unrestricted density model is bounded.

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