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How far can you compress data without losing a parameter

Sufficiency lets you replace a large data set with a small summary without losing information about a parameter.

Explain how far this compression can go for the Poisson, the exponential, and the two-parameter normal, and why you generally cannot compress below the number of parameters.

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This one is open-ended. Work it through, then check your reasoning against the full solution.

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