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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 210 1 c Solution by
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Put and . Use the scan statistic and the statistical hypothesis testing ruleThe union bound and the Hoeffding inequality give , since . Conditional on index , accepting the null hypothesis implies . The assumed separation gives , so this threshold lies more than below the alternative expected value . The lower-tail Hoeffding inequality therefore gives . Averaging the conditional error over the mixture model gives as well.
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