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A sufficient statistic is one for which the conditional distribution of the full sample given does not depend on . TakeFor a binary sample with , its likelihood function iswhich depends on the data only through . By the Fisher-Neyman factorization theorem, is sufficient. Equivalently, conditionally on , the sample is uniform over the binary vectors containing ones, independently of .
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