find the variance of the MLE of $\tau(\lambda)=1/\lambda, X_1,...,X_n \sim_{\text{iid}} \operatorname{Pois}(\lambda)$

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My way of understanding it is this:

$\hat{\tau}(\lambda) = 1/\bar{X}$

$\operatorname{Var}(1/\bar{X}) = E((1/\bar{X})^2)-E(1/\bar{X})^2$

To find $E(1/\bar{X})$ we consider the mgf $E(\exp{\frac{t}{\bar{X}}})$ (I'm not sure here whether I can calculate the mgf of a function of r.v as $E(e^{tf(x)})$ )

as $T=\bar{X} \sim \operatorname{Pois}(n\lambda)$

$E(\exp{\frac{t}{\bar{X}}}) = e^{-n\lambda}\sum_{T=0}^\infty e^{t/T}(n\lambda)^T/T!$

This blows up as $e^{t/0}$ is $\infty$, thus the mean and variance are infinite.

The solution states the following:

Since $P(\bar{X} = 0) > 0$, we get that even the first moment is infinite (not to mention the second) and there is no finite variance.

I feel like it's talking about the same thing. But I wasn't sure whether I calculated the moment of a function of R.V correctly.

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Your moment generating function for $f(\bar X)$, of $$\mathbb E\left[e^{tf(\bar X)}\right] = \sum\limits_x e^{tf(x)} \,\mathbb P(\bar X = x)$$ would be correct for a discrete distribution if you summed over all possible values of $\bar X$.

You have almost but not quite not quite done that, since $\bar X$ can take fractional values and does not have a Poisson distribution, though $n\bar X$ does have a Poisson distribution.

In this case it not really matter, since with $f(x)=\frac1x$ the sum fails at the start when $x=0$, as you get the term $e^{t/0}\mathbb \,P(\bar X = 0)$, i.e. an expression involving division by $0$, multiplied by a positive value, and you cannot handle this.