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The structure of the class of absolutely admissible tests
A. V. Bernštein Moscow
Abstract:
Let
$Q$ be a distribution in
$R^k$ which is absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure, and let
$Q_\lambda$,
$\lambda\in\Lambda\subseteq R^k$ be an exponential family such that
$$
dQ_\lambda/dQ=b(\lambda)\exp\{(\lambda,y)\},\qquad y\in R^k,
$$
where
$(y,\lambda)$ denotes the scalar product in
$R^k$ and
$B(\lambda)$ is a norming constant. Let
$y$ be an observation of the random variable
$Y$ with distribution
$Q_\lambda$. Let
$\Phi_\varepsilon$ be a complete class of admissible tests in the problem of testing the hypothesis
$H_0\colon\lambda=0$ against the
alternatives
$H_\varepsilon$:
$\lambda\ne 0$,
$|\lambda|\le\varepsilon$, and $\Phi_0=\bigcap\limits_{\varepsilon>0}\Phi_\varepsilon$. It is proved that the class
$\Phi_0$ consists of tests the acceptance regions of which are either the ellipsoidal cylinder or the half-space. Moreover, it is shown that the necessary condition for the test
$\varphi$ to belong to the class
$\Phi_R$ for any
$R>0$ is the following one: the boundary of the acceptance region of
$\varphi$ is an analytic
$(k-1)$-dimensional real manifold in
$R^k$. In particular, the likelihood ratio test for normal distribution
$N(\lambda,I)$ and alternatives
$0<|\lambda|\le R$,
$\lambda_1\ge 0$ is unadmissible.
Received: 13.05.1980