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On the Problem of the Most Efficient Tests of Statistical Hypotheses

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A

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Jerzy Neyman and Egon Pearson's 1933 paper setting out a rigorous framework for testing statistical hypotheses, including what is now called the Neyman-Pearson lemma, published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, volume 231, pages 289 to 337.

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Author
Jerzy Neyman and Egon Sharpe Pearson
Publisher
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A
Publication Year
1933
Source Type
Journal article
Reliability Tier
1
The primary published paper in which the Neyman-Pearson lemma and framework were introduced, the lemma's own foundational source.
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On the Problem of the Most Efficient Tests of Statistical Hypotheses
Jerzy Neyman and Egon Sharpe Pearson, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, 1933
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