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This is an account of the life of the author’s book Testing Statistical Hypotheses , its genesis, philosophy, reception and publishing history. There is also some discussion of the position of hypothesis testing and the Neyman-Pearson theory in the wider context of statistical methodology and theory.
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Lehmann, E.L., Lehmann, E.L. (2012). Testing Statistical Hypotheses: The Story of a Book. In: Rojo, J. (eds) Selected Works of E. L. Lehmann. Selected Works in Probability and Statistics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1412-4_82
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