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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 ib Paper 1 18H i Solution by
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Write and . Completing the square in each sample, the log likelihood is, up to a data-dependent constant,The maximum-likelihood estimators follow because it is strictly maximized over unrestricted means at . Under the null it is maximized at . Thus the likelihood ratio is , and the likelihood-ratio test rejects for large .
Under every null value of , has the standard Gaussian distribution; hence has the chi-squared distribution with one degree of freedom. Let , where is the standard Gaussian cumulative distribution function. The exact size- test isThe null rejection probability is , independently of the nuisance mean . No randomization is required because the statistic has a continuous distribution.
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