Paper 1, Section I, E

Statistics
Part IB, 2010

Suppose X1,,XnX_{1}, \ldots, X_{n} are independent N(0,σ2)N\left(0, \sigma^{2}\right) random variables, where σ2\sigma^{2} is an unknown parameter. Explain carefully how to construct the uniformly most powerful test of size α\alpha for the hypothesis H0:σ2=1H_{0}: \sigma^{2}=1 versus the alternative H1:σ2>1H_{1}: \sigma^{2}>1.