Which of the following statements are necessary to construct an appropriate test procedure?
A) Specify a test statistic.
B) Decide on the general form of the rejection region.
C) Select the specified numerical critical value or values that will separate the rejection region from the acceptance region.
D) All of the above statements are necessary.
E) Only A and B are necessary statements.

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All of the statements are necessary in order to construct an appropriate test procedure. A test statistic needs to be selected to measure the difference between the sample data and the null hypothesis, the general form of the rejection region needs to be determined to specify the range of values that will lead to rejecting the null hypothesis, and numerical critical values need to be chosen to separate the rejection region from the acceptance region.

Which of the Following Statements Are Necessary to Construct an Appropriate