A reverse martingale property that characterizes the natural exponential family with quadratic variance function (Q1579538)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1506810
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A reverse martingale property that characterizes the natural exponential family with quadratic variance function
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1506810

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    A reverse martingale property that characterizes the natural exponential family with quadratic variance function (English)
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    19 June 2001
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    We give a characterization of the natural exponential family with quadratic variance function in terms of a discrete-time reverse martingale-like property. The proof of this result is based on the properties of the set of UMVU estimable functions.
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    UMVU estimation
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    orthogonal polynomials
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    exponential families
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