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Past exam of the statistics course of the University of Oxford 2023 1 b i Solution by
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Expanding the exponent, the log-likelihood function iswhere is independent of . Its score function and second derivative areThe first is positive below and negative above it, so the unique maximum-likelihood estimator isUsing , the one-observation Fisher information is . The support does not depend on the interior parameter , and the regular asymptotic normality of a maximum likelihood estimator givesThis is Inverse Gaussian mean estimation with known shape one. Equivalently, the Inverse Gaussian distribution has variance , so the same result follows directly from the central limit theorem applied to its sample mean.
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