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Neyman-Pearson lemma
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English
Neyman–Pearson lemma
Etymology
Named after Jerzy Neyman and Egon Pearson.
Proper noun
en statistics A lemma stating that when performing a hypothesis test between two point hypotheses H0: θ = θ0 and H1: θ = θ1, then the likelihood-ratio test which rejects H0 in favour of H1 when where is the most powerful test of size α for a threshold η.
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