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Past exam of the options I course of the University of Oxford 2011 O 2 c Solution by
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The total under has Poisson distribution with mean , and the observed total is . Its one-sided p-value is thereforeThe supplied also shows that the observed count does not enter the approximate 10% upper-tail rejection region. Thus there is insufficient evidence to reject at either the 10% or 5% level. The question specifies no testing level, so the p-value gives the general conclusion: rejection is justified only at levels at least about .
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