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Equivalence Testing as an Alternative to Significance Testing

  • Huh, Myung-Hoe
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.199-206
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    • 1994
  • Sometimes a researcher with a view of conventional significance testing rejects his/her hypothesis, even through it could have not been rejected with a smaller sample. This can be a logical dilemma for a researcher who wants to "prove" a hypothesis rather than to show discrepancy from a null hypothesis. In this study, a new testing paradigm called equivalence testing via confidence interval will be developed so that it is suitable for the purpose of statistical proof.cal proof.

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A Two Sample Test for Functional Data

  • Lee, Jong Soo;Cox, Dennis D.;Follen, Michele
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.121-135
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    • 2015
  • We consider testing equality of mean functions from two samples of functional data. A novel test based on the adaptive Neyman methodology applied to the Hotelling's T-squared statistic is proposed. Under the enlarged null hypothesis that the distributions of the two populations are the same, randomization methods are proposed to find a null distribution which gives accurate significance levels. An extensive simulation study is presented which shows that the proposed test works very well in comparison with several other methods under a variety of alternatives and is one of the best methods for all alternatives, whereas the other methods all show weak power at some alternatives. An application to a real-world data set demonstrates the applicability of the method.

Testing Harmonic Used Better than Aged in Expectation in Upper Tail(HUBAEUT) Class of Life Distributions Using Kernel Method

  • Abu-Youssef, S.E.;Al-nachawati, H.
    • International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.89-99
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    • 2006
  • A new classes of life distribution, namely harmonic used better than aged in expectation in upper tail (HUBAEUT) is introduced. Testing exponentiality against this class is investigated using kernel method. The limiting null and nonnull distribution of the test statistics is normal and the null variance is calculated exactly. Selected critical values are tabulated for sample sizes of 5(1)40. Power of the test are estimated by simulation. the efficacies of the test statistics used for testing against HUBAEUT are calculated for som common alternatives and are compared to some other procedures. It is shown that proposed test is simple, has high relative efficiency and power for some commonly used alternatives. The set of real data are used as an examples to elucidate the use of the proposed test statistics for practical reliability.

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Distance between the Distributions of the P-value and the Lower Bound of the Posterior Probability

  • Oh, Hyun-Sook
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.237-249
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    • 1999
  • It has been issued that the irreconcilability of the classical test for a point null and standard Bayesian formulation for testing such a point null. The infimum of the posterior probability of the null hypothesis is used as measure of evidence against the null hypothesis in Bayesian approach; here the infimum is over the family of priors on the alternative hypotheses which includes all density that are a priori reasonable. For iid observations from a multivariate normal distribution in $\textit{p}$ dimensions with an unknown mean and a covariance matrix propotional to the Identity we consider the difference and the Wolfowitz distance of the distributions of the P-value and the lower bound of the posterior probability over the family of all normal priors. The Wolfowitz distance is interpreted as the average difference of the quantiles of the two distrbutions.

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Testing Homogeneity for Random Effects in Linear Mixed Model

  • Ahn, Chul H.
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.403-414
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    • 2000
  • A diagnostic tool for testing homogeneity for random effects is proposed in unbalanced linear mixed model based on score statistic. The finite sample behavior of the test statistic is examined using Monte Carlo experiments examine the chi-square approximation of the test statistic under the null hypothesis.

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Multivariate Analysis of Variance for Fuzzy Data

  • Kang, Man-Ki;Han, Sung-Il
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.97-100
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    • 2004
  • We propose some properties of fuzzy multivariate analysis of variance by fuzzy vector operation with agreement index. We deals fuzzy null hypotheses and fuzzy alternative hypothesis and define the agreement index for the grades of the judgements that the hypothesis is rejection or acceptance. Finally, we provide an example to evaluate the judgements.

Some Distribution Free Tests for Exponential Distributions

  • Jeon, Jong Woo;Han, Suk Ki;Nam, Eun Woo
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.39-46
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    • 1986
  • This paper considers two sided tests for exponential null distribution against NBUE or NWUE alternative in life testing. The main results concern the strong consistency of two proposed statistics, one being similar to Kolmogorov - Smirnov statistic, the other similar to Cramer-Von Mises statistic. Also obtained are the asymtotic null distribution and the exact Bahadur slope of the statistic similar to Kolmogorov-Smirnov.

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Testing for Failure Rate Ordering between Survival Distributions

  • Park, Chul-Gyu
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.349-365
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    • 1994
  • We develop in this paper the likelihood ratio test (LRT) for testing $H_1 : F_1 \preceq F_2$ against $H_2 - H_1$ where $H_2$ imposes no restriction on $F_1$ and $F_2$ and '$\preceq$' means failure rate ordering. Both one and two-sample problems will be considered. In the one-sample case, one of the two distributions is known, while we assume in the other case both are unknown. We derive the asymptotic null distribution of the LRT statistic which will be of chi-bar-square type. The main issue here is to determine the least favorable distribution which is stochastically largest within the class of null distributions.

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Interferometric Testing of Fast CNC machined Aspheric Surface (CNC 가공된 급속한 비구면의 간섭계 검사)

  • 김광중;백성훈;김철중
    • Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2000.02a
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    • pp.216-217
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    • 2000
  • 영상매체의 발달은 고성능의 정밀한 광학소자의 발전을 요구하게 된다. 이러한 광학소자는 제작의 용이함 때문에 주로 구면소자가 많이 사용되어 왔으나 구면소자만으로 해결하기 어려운 구면수차, 왜곡수차, 비점수차 등의 요인을 극소화하고 광학소자의 소형, 경량화를 위하여 비구면 광학소자의 사용이 필요하게 되었으며 비구면 가공기술의 발전과 더불어 그 사용이 증가하고 있다. 그러나 비구면광학소자는 제작과정의 어려움과 더불어 품질평가의 어려움이 있다. 특히 급속한 기울기를 가진 면의 측정은 3차원측정기에 의한 방법이나 간섭계를 사용한 단순한 null optics 검사로는 정확도와 실험의 한계가 있다. 비구면 광학소자의 평가방법으로는 간섭계를 사용하여 기준파면과 대상파면을 비교하는 일반적인 null testing과 최근에는 CGH(computer generated hologram)로 재생된 비구면파면과 대상파면을 비교하는 방법도 많이 연구되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 일반적인 검사방법으로는 검사가 어려운 급속한 기울기를 가진 포물면(parabolic surface)에 대한 하나의 검사방법을 제시하고자 한다. (중략)

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