On asymptotic sufficiency and optimality of quantizations

It is known that quantizations of primary sources of information reduce the information available for statistical inference. We are interested in the quantizations for which the loss of statistical information can be controlled by the number of cells in the observation space used to quantize observations. If the losses for increasing numbers of cells converge to zero then we speak about asymptotically sufficient quantizations. Optimality is treated on the basis of rate of this convergence. The attention is restricted to the models with continuous real-valued observations and to the interval partitions. We give easily verifiable necessary and sufficient conditions for the asymptotic sufficiency and, for a most common measure of statistical information, we study also the rate of convergence to the information in the original non-quantized models. Applications of the results in concrete models are illustrated by examples.