Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 210 1 d Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
For , the chi-squared divergence is . Write for the likelihood ratios of the complete -ball sample. Since and , the second moment of a mixture likelihood ratio givesIf instead denotes a one-ball likelihood ratio, its cross moment must be raised to the th power for the full sample, by independence.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 210 1 e Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Let . From the supplied second moment of a mixture likelihood ratio, dropping a nonpositive term givesThe last step uses the assumed separation. It has a real square root only when ; otherwise no parameters satisfy it. The chi-squared testing lower bound follows from the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality: . Every statistical hypothesis testing rule has sum of its Type I error and Type II error at least . Its larger error is at least half the sum, hence
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 210 2 d Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Define . Expanding its chi-squared divergence by the second moment of a mixture likelihood ratio, and using the supplied one-observation cross moment and independence, givesHere are independent uniform members of the specified family of cyclic intervals. Their overlap does not have the hypergeometric distribution of arbitrary uniform -subsets. The family's geometry must be retained.
Let . Since and , we obtain . Taking the expected value proves the upper bound. The factor in the last exponent is present in the PDF and missing in the TeX aid.