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Too much sampling kills the UMP test

✍ Scribed by Yongdai Kim; Joseph S. Verducci

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 226 KB
Volume: 41
Category: Article
ISSN: 0167-7152
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(98)00095-9

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✦ Synopsis

A statistical oddity is described, in which it is possible to construct a uniformly most powerful (UMP) test for a sample of size one, but for which there is no UMP test for larger sample sizes. ~

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