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Past exam of the options II course of the University of Oxford 2012 O O5 c Solution by
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The likelihood ratio between the two normal means isSince , it is strictly increasing in . The Neyman–Pearson test therefore rejects for large sample means. Under the null, , so choosing a right-tail probability givesThis has size exactly because the sampling distribution is continuous.
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