Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-probability-statistics-and-options-i-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2011/o/3/c/solution

Under , the statistic has Student t-distribution with degrees of freedom. Reject in either tail, splitting the null error probability equally. Thus the critical region is
The distribution is continuous, so the boundary convention does not change the size .

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