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Independent, Tough Identical Results: The Class of Tweedie on Power Variance Functions and the Class of Bar-Lev and Enis on Reproducible Natural Exponential Families

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The Rao-Blackwell theorem has had a fundamental role in statistical theory. However, as opposed to what seems natural, Rao and Blackwell did not investigate and write the theorem jointly. In fact, they both published the same result independently, two years apart. Indeed, as C.R. Rao writes in Wikipedia- ”the result on one parameter case was published by Rao (1945) in the Bulletin of the Calcutta Mathematical Society and by Blackwell (1947) in The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. Only Lehmann and Sche ´e (1950) called the result as Rao-Blackwell theorem”. Forty years later, a situation very similar to the previous one seems to have happened. Tweedie (1984) in a paper published in a proceedings to a conference held in Calcutta and Bar-Lev and Enis (1986) in a paper published in The Annals of Statistics both presented for the first time, albeit two years apart, independently and in di erent contexts, the class of natural exponential families having power variance functions (NEF-PVFs). Tweedie’s results were then mentioned by Jorgensen (1987) in his fundamental paper on exponential dispersion models published in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. Jorgensen, however, mentioned also other researchers, including Bar-Lev and Enis, as dealt with the same problem. Nonetheless, Jorgensen (1987) stated in his paper that ”The most complete study” of NEF-PVFs was given by Tweedie (1984), a statement which has led to naming the class of NEF-PVFs as the Tweedie class. This statement of Jorgensen is entirely and utterly incorrect. Accordingly, one of the goals of this note is to 'prove' such incorrectness. Based on this 'proof' it will be evident, so I trust, that both Bar-Lev and Enis should have received the appropriate credit by re-naming the class of NEF-PVFs via the exploitation of the names of Tweedie, Bar-Lev and Enis. This would resemble the dignified and elegant manner Lehmann and Sche ´e acted on the Rao-Blackwell Theorem. Notwithstanding, the main aim of the note is to encourage young researchers to present their results with self-confidence and to get the credit they deserve.

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  • Shaul K. Bar-Lev, 2020. "Independent, Tough Identical Results: The Class of Tweedie on Power Variance Functions and the Class of Bar-Lev and Enis on Reproducible Natural Exponential Families," International Journal of Statistics and Probability, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 9(1), pages 1-30, January.
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    1. S. Bar-Lev & P. Enis, 1985. "Reproducibility in the one-parameter exponential family," Metrika: International Journal for Theoretical and Applied Statistics, Springer, vol. 32(1), pages 391-394, December.
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    1. Célestin C. Kokonendji & Aboubacar Y. Touré & Rahma Abid, 2022. "On General Exponential Weight Functions and Variation Phenomenon," Sankhya A: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Springer;Indian Statistical Institute, vol. 84(2), pages 924-940, August.
    2. Shaul K. Bar-Lev, 2021. "On the Notion of Reproducibility and Its Full Implementation to Natural Exponential Families," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 9(13), pages 1-11, July.
    3. Shaul K. Bar-Lev & Apostolos Batsidis & Jochen Einbeck & Xu Liu & Panpan Ren, 2023. "Cumulant-Based Goodness-of-Fit Tests for the Tweedie, Bar-Lev and Enis Class of Distributions," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 11(7), pages 1-20, March.

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