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NeymanPearson lemma
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In statistics, the Neyman-Pearson lemma, named after Jerzy Neyman and Egon Pearson, states that when performing a hypothesis test between two point hypotheses H0: = 0 and H1: = 1, then the likelihood-ratio test which rejects H0 in favour of H1 when
where
is the most powerful test of size for a threshold . If the test is most powerful for all uniformly most powerful (UMP) for alternatives in the set .
, it is said to be
In practice, the likelihood ratio is often used directly to construct tests see Likelihood-ratio test. However it can also be used to suggest particular test-statistics that might be of interest or to suggest simplified tests for this one considers algebraic manipulation of the ratio to see if there are key statistics in it related to the size of the ratio (i.e. whether a large statistic corresponds to a small ratio or to a large one).
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1 Proof 2 Example 3 See also 4 References 5 External links
Proof
Define the rejection region of the null hypothesis for the NP test as
Any other test will have a different rejection region that we define as data falling in region R, given parameter as
It will be useful to break these down into integrals over distinct regions:
and
Setting
and
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Example
Let be a random sample from the we wish to test for against distribution where the mean is known, and suppose that . The likelihood for this set of normally distributed data is
We can compute the likelihood ratio to find the key statistic in this test and its effect on the test's outcome:
. Therefore, by the Neyman-Pearson lemma, the most . Also, by inspection, we can . So we should reject if
powerful test of this type of hypothesis for this data will depend only on see that if , then is an increasing function of
is sufficiently large. The rejection threshold depends on the size of the test. In this example, the test statistic can be shown to be a scaled Chi-square distributed random variable and an exact critical value can be obtained.
See also
Statistical power
References
Jerzy Neyman, Egon Pearson (1933). "On the Problem of the Most Efficient Tests of Statistical Hypotheses". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical or Physical Character 231: 289337. doi:10.1098/rsta.1933.0009 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1098%2Frsta.1933.0009) . JSTOR 91247 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/91247) . cnx.org: Neyman-Pearson criterion (http://cnx.org/content/m11548/latest/)
External links
Cosma Shalizi, a professor of statistics at Carnegie Mellon University, gives an intuitive derivation of the Neyman-Pearson Lemma using ideas from economics (http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/630.html) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neyman%E2%80%93Pearson_lemma&oldid=479307028" Categories: Statistical theorems Statistical tests This page was last modified on 28 February 2012 at 15:11. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of use for details. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.
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