Paper 1, Section II, H

Statistics
Part IB, 2009

What is the critical region CC of a test of the null hypothesis H0:θΘ0H_{0}: \theta \in \Theta_{0} against the alternative H1:θΘ1H_{1}: \theta \in \Theta_{1} ? What is the size of a test with critical region C?C ? What is the power function of a test with critical region CC ?

State and prove the Neyman-Pearson Lemma.

If X1,,XnX_{1}, \ldots, X_{n} are independent with commonExp(λ)\operatorname{common} \operatorname{Exp}(\lambda) distribution, and 0<λ0<λ10<\lambda_{0}<\lambda_{1}, find the form of the most powerful size- α\alpha test of H0:λ=λ0H_{0}: \lambda=\lambda_{0} against H1:λ=λ1H_{1}: \lambda=\lambda_{1}. Find the power function as explicitly as you can, and prove that it is increasing in λ\lambda. Deduce that the test you have constructed is a size- α\alpha test of H0:λλ0H_{0}: \lambda \leqslant \lambda_{0} against H1:λ=λ1H_{1}: \lambda=\lambda_{1}.