Abstract:
Let Q be a distribution in Rk which is absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure, and let Qλ, λ∈Λ⊆Rk be an exponential family such that
dQλ/dQ=b(λ)exp{(λ,y)},y∈Rk,
where (y,λ) denotes the scalar product in Rk and B(λ) is a norming constant. Let y be an observation of the random variable Y with distribution Qλ. Let Φε be a complete class of admissible tests in the problem of testing the hypothesis H0:λ=0 against the
alternatives Hε: λ≠0, |λ|⩽ε, and Φ0=⋂ε>0Φε. It is proved that the class Φ0 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 φ to belong to the class ΦR for any R>0 is the following one: the boundary of the acceptance region of φ is an analytic (k−1)-dimensional real manifold in Rk. In particular, the likelihood ratio test for normal distribution N(λ,I) and alternatives 0<|λ|⩽R, λ1⩾0 is unadmissible.
Citation:
A. V. Bernštein, “The structure of the class of absolutely admissible tests”, Teor. Veroyatnost. i Primenen., 28:2 (1983), 404–410; Theory Probab. Appl., 28:2 (1984), 426–432