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2 CHAPTER 8. THE EXPONENTIAL FAMILY: BASICS where we see that the cumulant function can be viewed as the logarithm of a normalization factor.1 This shows that A(η) is not a degree of freedom in the specification of an exponential family density; it is determined once ν, T(x) and h(x) are determined.2 The set of parameters ηfor which the integral in Eq.

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