Sufficiency and the separation of strongly convex sets of probability measures

Ramamoorthi, R. V.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1991-1028047-X

Sufficiency and the separation of strongly convex sets of probability measures
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 111 (1991), 239-245 Request permission

Abstract:

We show that the equivalence of two notions of sufficiency is related to the separation of two orthogonal, strongly convex sets of probability measures by a universally measurable set.

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