Uniformly Most Powerful Test - Setting

Setting

Let denote a random vector (corresponding to the measurements), taken from a parametrized family of probability density functions or probability mass functions, which depends on the unknown deterministic parameter . The parameter space is partitioned into two disjoint sets and . Let denote the hypothesis that, and let denote the hypothesis that . The binary test of hypotheses is performed using a test function .

\phi(x) = \begin{cases} 1 & \text{if } x \in R \\ 0 & \text{if } x \in A \end{cases}

meaning that is in force if the measurement and that is in force if the measurement . Note that is a disjoint covering of the measurement space.

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