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Past exam of the statistics course of the University of Oxford 2017 1 a iii Solution by
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For a Bernoulli distribution with fixed , the mean and variance are and . The odds transformation has derivative . Applying the delta method from part (ii),More precisely, converges to a normal distribution of mean zero and variance , after defining the statistic arbitrarily on . That exceptional event has probability , so this extension does not change the limit. The unextended ratio is undefined there and has no finite exact variance if interpreted as infinite. At it is zero almost surely; at the denominator is always zero. This is the delta method for Bernoulli odds.
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