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The power of a test at a parameter value is its probability of rejecting the null there. Its size is the supremum of this probability over the null parameter set. The Neyman-Pearson lemma states that for simple null and alternative densities , a test rejecting where , accepting where , and randomizing as needed on equality to attain size , has greatest power among tests of size at most .
The specified function is nonnegative. Its integral isFor independent observations write . The likelihood ratio of the smaller alternative parameter to the null isIt is strictly increasing in . Thus the most powerful level- test rejects forThe continuous distribution permits this size without randomization for . Its threshold depends only on the null and the desired size, not on which was chosen. The same test is therefore uniformly most powerful against the entire one-sided alternative .
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