For a sufficient statistic and parameter , a useful strong reduction requires the law of to be free of and the conditional distribution of given to be free of the nuisance parameter . In the discrete case it giveswhere sums to one on each fiber, sums to one over , and sums to one over separately for every fixed . Ordinary ancillarity, or just the law of being free of , does not by itself guarantee that conditioning removes .
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