A simulation study on the influence of ties on uniform scores test for circular data

Feridun Tasdan and Meral Cetin

Journal of Applied Statistics, 2014, vol. 41, issue 5, 1137-1146

Abstract: Uniform scores test is a rank-based method that tests the homogeneity of k -populations in circular data problems. The influence of ties on the uniform scores test has been emphasized by several authors in several articles and books. Moreover, it is suggested that the uniform scores test should be used with caution if ties are present in the data. This paper investigates the influence of ties on the uniform scores test by computing the power of the test using average, randomization, permutation, minimum, and maximum methods to break ties. Monte Carlo simulation is performed to compute the power of the test under several scenarios such as having 5% or 10% of ties and tie group structures in the data. The simulation study shows no significant difference among the methods under the existence of ties but the test loses its power when there are many ties or complicated group structures. Thus, randomization or average methods are equally powerful to break ties when applying uniform scores test. Also, it can be concluded that k -sample uniform scores test can be used safely without sacrificing the power if there are only less than 5% of ties or at most two groups of a few ties.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2013.862224

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