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The Efficiency of Tests

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The Collected Works of Wassily Hoeffding

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The efficiency of a family of tests is defined. Methods for evaluating the efficiency are discussed. The asymptotic efficiency is obtained for certain families of tests under assumptions which imply that the sample size is large.

This research was supported by the United States Air Force, through the Office of Scientific Research of the Air Research and Development Command.

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  1. University of North Carolina, USA

    Wassily Hoeffding & Joan Raup Rosenblatt

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  1. Wassily Hoeffding
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  1. Division of Mathematics and Statisics, CSIRO, E6B, Macquarie University Campus, North Ryde, NSW, 2113, Australia

    N. I. Fisher

  2. Department of Statistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA

    P. K. Sen

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Hoeffding, W., Rosenblatt, J.R. (1994). The Efficiency of Tests. In: Fisher, N.I., Sen, P.K. (eds) The Collected Works of Wassily Hoeffding. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0865-5_17

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