Paper 1, Section II, H
Part IB, 2019
State and prove the Neyman-Pearson lemma.
Suppose that are i.i.d. random variables where is an unknown parameter. We wish to test the hypothesis against the hypothesis where .
(a) Find the critical region of the likelihood ratio test of size in terms of the sample mean .
(b) Define the power function of a hypothesis test and identify the power function in the setting described above in terms of the probability distribution function. [You may use without proof that is distributed as a random variable.]
(c) Define what it means for a hypothesis test to be uniformly most powerful. Determine whether the likelihood ratio test considered above is uniformly most powerful for testing against .