Mann--Whitney test with empirical likelihood methods for pretest--posttest studies

Min Chen, Changbao Wu and Mary E. Thompson

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 2016, vol. 28, issue 2, 360-374

Abstract: Pretest--posttest studies are an important and popular method for assessing the effectiveness of a treatment or an intervention in many scientific fields. While the treatment effect, measured as the difference between the two mean responses, is of primary interest, testing the difference of the two distribution functions for the treatment and the control groups is also an important problem. The Mann--Whitney test has been a standard tool for testing the difference of distribution functions with two independent samples. We develop empirical likelihood-based (EL) methods for the Mann--Whitney test to incorporate the two unique features of pretest--posttest studies: (i) the availability of baseline information for both groups; and (ii) the structure of the data with missing by design. Our proposed methods combine the standard Mann--Whitney test with the EL method of Huang, Qin and Follmann [(2008), ‘Empirical Likelihood-Based Estimation of the Treatment Effect in a Pretest--Posttest Study’, Journal of the American Statistical Association , 103(483), 1270--1280], the imputation-based empirical likelihood method of Chen, Wu and Thompson [(2015), ‘An Imputation-Based Empirical Likelihood Approach to Pretest--Posttest Studies’, The Canadian Journal of Statistics accepted for publication], and the jackknife empirical likelihood method of Jing, Yuan and Zhou [(2009), ‘Jackknife Empirical Likelihood’, Journal of the American Statistical Association , 104, 1224--1232]. Theoretical results are presented and finite sample performances of proposed methods are evaluated through simulation studies.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/10485252.2016.1163354

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