A Posterior p -Value for Homogeneity Testing of the Three-Sample Problem

Yufan Wang and Xingzhong Xu ()
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Yufan Wang: School of Mathematics and Statistics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Xingzhong Xu: School of Mathematical Science, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China

Mathematics, 2023, vol. 11, issue 18, 1-25

Abstract: In this paper, we study a special kind of finite mixture model. The sample drawn from the model consists of three parts. The first two parts are drawn from specified density functions, f 1 and f 2 , while the third one is drawn from the mixture. A problem of interest is whether the two functions, f 1 and f 2 , are the same. To test this hypothesis, we first define the regular location and scale family of distributions and assume that f 1 and f 2 are regular density functions. Then the hypothesis transforms to the equalities of the location and scale parameters, respectively. To utilize the information in the sample, we use Bayes’ theorem to obtain the posterior distribution and give the sampling method. We then propose the posterior p -value to test the hypothesis. The simulation studies show that our posterior p -value largely improves the power in both normal and logistic cases and nicely controls the Type-I error. A real halibut dataset is used to illustrate the validity of our method.

Keywords: three-sample problem; homogeneity test; Bernstein-von Mises theorem; posterior p -value (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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