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516 7 Statistical Hypotheses and Confidence Sets<br />

hence, the test is similar wrt P0. This condition on the critical region is called<br />

Neyman structure.<br />

The concepts <strong>of</strong> similarity and Neyman structure are relevant for unbiased<br />

tests, which we will consider in Section 7.2.3.<br />

Now suppose that U is boundedly complete sufficient for θu. If<br />

E(EH0(δ(X)|U)) = α,<br />

then the test has Neyman structure. While the power may still depend on θu,<br />

this fact may allow us to determine optimal tests <strong>of</strong> given size without regard<br />

to the nuisance parameters.<br />

7.2.2 Uniformly Most Powerful Tests<br />

The probability <strong>of</strong> a type I error is limited to α or less. We seek a procedure<br />

that yields the minimum probability <strong>of</strong> a type II error, given that bound<br />

on the probability <strong>of</strong> a type I error. This would be a “most powerful” test.<br />

Ideally, the test would be most powerful for all values <strong>of</strong> θ ∈ Θ1. We call<br />

such a procedure a uniformly most powerful or UMP α-level test. For a given<br />

problem, finding such tests, or establishing that they do not exist, will be<br />

one <strong>of</strong> our primary objectives. The Neyman-Pearson Lemma gives us a way<br />

<strong>of</strong> determining whether a UMP test exists, and if so how to find one. The<br />

main issue is the likelihood ratio as a function <strong>of</strong> the parameter in the region<br />

specified by a composite H1. If the likelihood ratio is monotone, then we have<br />

a UMP based on the ratio.<br />

Generalizing the Optimal Test to Hypotheses <strong>of</strong> Intervals: UMP<br />

Tests<br />

Although it applies to a simple alternative (and hence “uniform” properties<br />

do not make much sense), the Neyman-Pearson Lemma gives us a way <strong>of</strong><br />

determining whether a uniformly most powerful (UMP) test exists, and if so<br />

how to find one. We are <strong>of</strong>ten interested in testing hypotheses in which either<br />

or both <strong>of</strong> Θ0 and Θ1 are convex regions <strong>of</strong> IR (or IR k ).<br />

We must look at the likelihood ratio as a function both <strong>of</strong> a scalar parameter<br />

θ and <strong>of</strong> a scalar function <strong>of</strong> x. The question is whether, for given<br />

θ0 and any θ1 > θ0 (or equivalently any θ1 < θ0), the likelihood is monotone<br />

in some scalar function <strong>of</strong> x; that is, whether the family <strong>of</strong> distributions <strong>of</strong><br />

interest is parameterized by a scalar in such a way that it has a monotone<br />

likelihood ratio (see page 167 and Exercise 2.5). In that case, it is clear that<br />

we can extend the test in (7.15) to be uniformly most powerful for testing<br />

H0 : θ = θ0 against an alternative H1 : θ > θ0 (or θ1 < θ0).<br />

Example 7.5 Testing hypotheses about the parameter in a Bernoulli<br />

distribution (continuation <strong>of</strong> Example 7.4)<br />

<strong>Theory</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Statistics</strong> c○2000–2013 James E. Gentle

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