Testing composite hypotheses via convex duality

We study the problem of testing composite hypotheses versus composite alternatives, using a convex duality approach. In contrast to classical results obtained by Krafft & Witting [11], where sufficient optimality conditions are obtained via Lagrange duality, we obtain necessary and sufficient optimality conditions via Fenchel duality under some compactness assumptions. This approach also dif

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