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Asymptotic Methods in Statistical Inference - Statistics Centre

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81<br />

• Example. 1 ∼ () ( 0); test<br />

= 0 . The large-sample test has acceptance<br />

¯<br />

region ¯√ ³ ¯ − 0´<br />

√ 0¯¯¯ ≤ 2 ,equivalently<br />

³ ¯ − 0´2<br />

≤ <br />

2<br />

2<br />

0 , result<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> the CI with<br />

endpo<strong>in</strong>ts<br />

¯ + 2 2<br />

2 ± 2<br />

√ <br />

v uut<br />

¯ + 2 2<br />

4 (9.1)<br />

Replac<strong>in</strong>g √ 0 by √ ¯ <strong>in</strong> the test statistic leads<br />

<strong>in</strong>stead to the CI<br />

¯ ± 2<br />

s<br />

¯<br />

<br />

which agrees with the previous one up to terms<br />

which are ( −1 ) (i.e. if such terms are dropped).<br />

This <strong>in</strong>terval is not strong. Toseethis,notethat<br />

¯ − 2<br />

r<br />

¯<br />

<br />

≤ ≤ ¯ + 2<br />

r<br />

¯<br />

<br />

implies that<br />

¯ 0, hence<br />

⎛ s s ⎞<br />

⎝<br />

¯<br />

¯<br />

<br />

¯ − 2<br />

≤ ≤ ¯ + ⎠ 2<br />

<br />

≤ 1 − <br />

³<br />

¯ =0´ =1− − → 0as → 0

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