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Mathematics

Sufficiency and the Factorization Theorem

Quick fact

A sufficient statistic can compress a dataset to a single number (or small set) without losing any information about the parameter—the Fisher information is exactly preserved.

Why this is interesting

If you had to summarize a dataset without losing any information about a key unknown, could you do it with a single number? Sometimes you can—a number that captures everything needed about the parameter.