A3.12 B3.15
Part II, 2001
(i) Explain what is meant by a uniformly most powerful unbiased test of a null hypothesis against an alternative.
Let be independent, identically distributed random variables, with known. Explain how to construct a uniformly most powerful unbiased size test of the null hypothesis that against the alternative that .
(ii) Outline briefly the Bayesian approach to hypothesis testing based on Bayes factors.
Let the distribution of be as in (i) above, and suppose we wish to test, as in (i), against the alternative . Suppose we assume a prior for under the alternative. Find the form of the Bayes factor , and show that, for fixed as .