Sequential estimation in processes with independent increments
Necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for the inclusions and to be fulfilled where , and , are some classes of invariant linearly sufficient statistics (Oktaba, Kornacki, Wawrzosek (1988)) corresponding to the Gauss-Markov models and , respectively.
Some basic results about invariance are given using quotient σ-fields. A strong kind of invariance is considered. Under appropriate conditions we obtain a sufficient statistics for models with such an invariance property.
We consider some fundamental concepts of mathematical statistics in the Bayesian setting. Sufficiency, prediction sufficiency and freedom can be treated as special cases of conditional independence. We give purely probabilistic proofs of the Basu theorem and related facts.