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Nested Hypothesis

Let S be the set of all possibilities that satisfy hypothesis H, and let S^' be the set of all possibilities that satisfy hypothesis H^'. Then H^' is a nested hypothesis within H iff S^' subset S, where subset denotes the proper subset.

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Log Likelihood Procedure

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Nested Hypothesis." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/NestedHypothesis.html

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