Neyman–Pearson lemma
Lema de Neyman-Pearson
- Date
- 1933 · confidence high
- Place
- London, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Egon Pearson y Jerzy Neyman
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
A statistical theorem characterizing the likelihood-ratio test as the uniformly most powerful hypothesis test at a given significance level, formulated by Jerzy Neyman and Egon Pearson.
What it led to
- foundation of modern hypothesis-testing theory
- introduction of the concepts of Type I and Type II error
- basis for designing optimal statistical tests in science and quality control