Paper 1, Section I, H

Statistics
Part IB, 2017

(a) State and prove the Rao-Blackwell theorem.

(b) Let X1,,XnX_{1}, \ldots, X_{n} be an independent sample from Poisson(λ)\operatorname{Poisson}(\lambda) with θ=eλ\theta=e^{-\lambda} to be estimated. Show that Y=1{0}(X1)Y=1_{\{0\}}\left(X_{1}\right) is an unbiased estimator of θ\theta and that T=iXiT=\sum_{i} X_{i} is a sufficient statistic.

What is E[YT]?\mathbb{E}[Y \mid T] ?