I document some of the main evidence showing that E. S. Pearson rejected the key features of the behavioral-decision philosophy that became associated with the Neyman-Pearson Theory of statistics (NPT). I argue that NPT principles arose not out of behavioral aims, where the concern is solely with behaving correctly sufficiently often in some long run, but out of the epistemological aim of learn...

In this paper, the Bayesian, Neyman-Pearson and Competitive Neyman-Pearson detection approaches are analyzed using a perceptually modified Ephraim-Malah (PEM) model, based on which a few practical voice activity detectors are developed. The voice activity detection is treated as a composite hypothesis testing problem with a free parameter formed by the prior signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). It is r...