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The main object of this paper is to find a criterion for comparison of two tests for non-parametric hypotheses, taking advantage of the qualitative information that may exist. After a detailed analysis of the problem and some earlier suggestins for its solution (sections 2–4), a criterion is suggested in section 5. In order to apply it to a concrete case, a location problem is specified in section 6. The rank tests to be compared are analyzed in section 7, and the comparison by way of the criterion is carried out in section 8. It turns out that sign tests, sometimes slightly modified, are very often optimal according to the criterion used.

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Given positive integers$n$_{1}<$n$_{2}<... we show that the Hardy-type inequality $$\sum\limits_{k = 1}^\infty {\frac{{\left| {\hat f(n_k )} \right|}}{k}} \leqslant const\left\| f \right\|1$$ holds true for all$f$∈$H$^{1}, provided that the$n$_{$k$}'s, satisfy an appropriate (and indispensable) regularity condition. On the other hand, we exhibit inifinite-dimensional subspaces of$H$^{1}for whose elements the above inequality is always valid, no additional hypotheses being imposed. In conclusion, we extend a result of Douglas, Shapiro and Shields on the cyclicity of lacunary series for the backward shift operator.

Let$f$be meromorphic in the open unit disc$D$and strongly normal; that is, $$(1 - |z|^2 )f^\# (z) \to 0as|z| \to 1,$$