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Past exam of the Probability, statistics and options II course of the University of Oxford 2010 O O5 b Solution by
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For a fixed , the likelihood ratio against the null isstrictly increasing in . The Neyman–Pearson critical region is therefore an upper tail in , and its null threshold depends only on the desired size, not on which was chosen. Thus the same test is uniformly most powerful for the entire one-sided alternative.
Under the null with the second parameter interpreted as rate. Its continuous distribution permits the exact thresholdUnder any fixed alternative its rejection probability is . Applying the lemma separately to each such shows that every level- test has power at most this value there. The constructed test attains the bound for all simultaneously.
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