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By a sequential test of a statistical hypothesis is meant any statistical test procedure which gives a specific rule, at any stage of the experiment (at the n-th trial for each integral value of n), for making one of the following three decisions: (1) to accept the hypothesis being tested (null hypothesis), (2) to reject the null hypothesis, (3) to continue the experiment by making an additional observation. Thus, such a test procedure is carried out sequentially. On the basis of the first trial, one of the three decisions mentioned above is made. If the first or the second decision is made, the process is terminated. If the third decision is made, a second trial is performed. Again on the basis of the first two trials one of the three decisions is made and if the third decision is reached a third trial is performed, etc. This process is continued until either the first or the second decision is made.
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Wald, A. (1992). Sequential Tests of Statistical Hypotheses. In: Kotz, S., Johnson, N.L. (eds) Breakthroughs in Statistics. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0919-5_18
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