Some Remarks on Rao and Lovric’s ‘Testing Point Null Hypothesis of a Normal Mean and the Truth: 21st Century Perspective

Abstract

Although we have much to agree with in Rao and Lovric’s important discussion of the test of point null hypotheses, it stirred us to provide a way out of their apparent Zero probability paradox and cast the Hodges-Lehmann paradigm from a Serlin-Lapsley approach. We close our remarks with an eye toward a broad perspective.