Solution

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The Neyman-Pearson lemma concerns testing two simple hypotheses with densities and relative to a common measure. A test that rejects when , accepts when , and randomizes on equality if necessary to achieve size , is most powerful among all tests with size at most :
Here is the described likelihood-ratio test and test functions take values in . In the continuous normal setting below the boundary has probability zero, so randomization is unnecessary.

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