Summary Basu (1964) has shown that there may be alternative ancillary statistics for the same problem. It is suggested in the present note that this non-uniqueness can be resolved by taking that ancillary statistic which separates the expected information into components that differ as widely as possible.
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D. R. Cox (1971) studied this question.
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