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On the Problem of the Most Efficient Tests of Statistical Hypotheses

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Creators

  • Jerzy Neyman, author
  • Egon Pearson, author

Canon Rationale

A foundational hypothesis-testing paper, included for the Neyman-Pearson framework, likelihood-ratio testing, error tradeoffs, and modern statistical inference.

Evidence

  • citation context: Jerzy Neyman and Egon S. Pearson, 'On the Problem of the Most Efficient Tests of Statistical Hypotheses,' Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 231, 289-337, 1933.
  • syllabus: Penn State STAT 415, '26.1 - Neyman-Pearson Lemma'.

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epistemic status required

Completion unit: read selected core sections, with the lemma and testing framework as the main target.

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