A class of nonparametric tests for testing homogeneity of variances against ordered alternatives based on subsample extrema

Kalpana Mahajan (), Sangeeta Arora and Anil Gaur

METRON, 2012, vol. 70, issue 2, 193-206

Abstract: A class of nonparametric test statistics for several sample scale problem is proposed by considering extrema of subsamples of size c. The proposed class of statistics has the advantage of not requiring the several distribution functions to have a common median, but rather any common quantile of order α, 0 ≤ α ≤1, (not necessarily 1/2) which is assumed to be known. The proposed class of tests is compared with other known tests already existing in the literature in the Pitman asymptotic relative efficiency sense for different distributions. Some results of Monte Carlo power study are also presented. Copyright Sapienza Università di Roma 2012

Keywords: U-statistics; Test for scale; Asymptotic relative efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/BF03321975

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