%0 Journal Article %A Morales González, Domingo %A Pardo Llorente, Leandro %A Pardo Llorente, María del Carmen %A Vadja, Igor %T Rényi statistics for testing composite hypotheses in general exponential models. %D 2004 %@ 0233-1888 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50297 %X We introduce a family of Renyi statistics of orders r is an element of R for testing composite hypotheses in general exponential models, as alternatives to the previously considered generalized likelihood ratio (GLR) statistic and generalized Wald statistic. If appropriately normalized exponential models converge in a specific sense when the sample size (observation window) tends to infinity, and if the hypothesis is regular, then these statistics are shown to be chi(2)-distributed under the hypothesis. The corresponding Renyi tests are shown to be consistent. The exact sizes and powers of asymptotically alpha-size Renyi, GLR and generalized Wald tests are evaluated for a concrete hypothesis about a bivariate Levy process and moderate observation windows. In this concrete situation the exact sizes of the Renyi test of the order r = 2 practically coincide with those of the GLR and generalized Wald tests but the exact powers of the Renyi test are on average somewhat better. %~