“…The LB test is also optimal in the sense that its power curve has the steepest slope, at the null hypothesis, of all power curves from tests with the same size. Following Neyman and Pearson [22], a number of authors, notably Ferguson [8], Efron [7], Cox and Hinkley [6], King [12][13][14], King and Hillier [18], King and Evans [16,17], Seifert [24], Lee [19], Baltagi and Wu [2] and Ha and Lee [10] among others, suggested the use of the LB test.…”