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A layman's note on a class of frequentist hypothesis testing problems

Statistics Theory 2015-02-05 v1 Statistics Theory

Abstract

It is observed that for testing between simple hypotheses where the cost of Type I and Type II errors can be quantified, it is better to let the optimization choose the test size.

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@article{arxiv.1502.01328,
  title  = {A layman's note on a class of frequentist hypothesis testing problems},
  author = {Michele Pavon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.01328},
  year   = {2015}
}
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