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Past exam of the statistics course of the University of Oxford 2014 2 a iii Solution by
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Put . For interior parameters , the alternative-to-null likelihood ratio isThe second base is greater than one, so this is strictly increasing in . The Neyman-Pearson lemma therefore gives an upper-tail rejection rule. Under the null hypothesis, , and an ordinary conservative threshold can be chosen asThere is an important discrete qualification: an integer cutoff need not have test size exactly . To obtain exact size, choose an integer with , reject certainly when , and at reject with probabilityThis randomized statistical test is a most powerful test at exact size ; when a binomial upper tail equals , no randomization is needed and the stated region is literal. Otherwise the unrandomized upper-tail region has size at most , and the exact-size result includes the boundary randomization. Endpoint parameter cases retain the same upper-tail ordering by taking limits, with ties resolved on the null-supported outcomes.
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