Solved – Finding complete sufficient statistic

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Let $X_1, \dots, X_n$ be iid. $\text{Uniform}[-\theta,\theta]$. I need to find the complete sufficient statistic for $\theta$ or prove there does not exist such.

I know that $T = (X_{(1)}, X_{(n)} )$ is a sufficient statistic for $\theta$ but it is not a complete sufficient statistic.

I want to prove it. So first I tried to use the Basu's theorem . But in this case $R = X_{(n)} – X_{(1)}, $ is not an ancillary statistic.

So I tried prove using the definition of the complete sufficient statistic.

Here I have attached my work so far:
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But by doing like this , seems like that I am going to prove that $T$ is a complete sufficient statistic.

So can someone help to figure it out what I did incorrectly ?

Best Answer

Recall:


Definition: A statistic $T$ is complete for $\theta$ if $$E(g(T)) = 0, \ \text{ for all $\theta$} \quad \Rightarrow \quad P(g(T) = 0) = 1, \ \text{ for all $\theta$}$$


The part about $P(g(T) = 0) = 1$ basically says that the function $g$ is trivially $0$ everywhere (except possibly on a set of measure 0).

So... If you want to prove that $T$ is NOT complete, you can try to find a non-trivial function $g(T)$ for which $E(g(T)) = 0$ for all values of $\theta$.

Hint: Can you find $E(X_{(1)})$ and $E(X_{(n)})$? Start with that, and then try looking at linear combinations of the sufficient order statistics.