Test statistics and p-values
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We point out that the traditional notion of test statistic is too narrow, and we propose a natural generalization that is arguably maximal. The study is restricted to simple statistical hypotheses. An older version of this paper is published as an arXiv technical report: https: //arxiv.org/abs/1702.02590.
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