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Instrinsic Priors for Testing Two Exponential Means with the Fractional Bayes Factor

  • Kim, Seong W.;Kim, Hyunsoo
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.395-405
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    • 2000
  • This article addresses the Bayesian hypothesis testing for the comparison of two exponential mans. Conventional Bayes factors with improper non-informative priors are into well defined. The fractional Byes factor(FBF) of O'Hagan(1995) is used to overcome such as difficulty. we derive proper intrinsic priors, whose Bayes factors are asymptotically equivalent to the corresponding FBFs. We demonstrate our results with three examples.

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Bayesian Hypothesis Testing for Intraclass Correlation Coefficient

  • Lee, Seung-A;Kim, Dal-Ho
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.551-566
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, we consider a Bayesian model selection for the intraclass correlation coefficient in familiar data. In particular, we compare two nested models such as the independence and intraclass models using the reference prior. A criterion for testing is the Bayesian Reference Criterion by Bernardo (1999) and the Intrinsic Bayes Factor by Berger and Pericchi (1996). We provide numerical examples using simulation data sets for illustration.

Testing Goodness of Fit in Nonparametric Function Estimation Techniques for Proportional Hazards Model

  • Kim, Jong-Tae
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.435-444
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    • 1997
  • The objective of this study is to investigate the problem of goodness of fit testing based on nonparametric function estimation techniques for the random censorship model. The small and large sample properties of the proposed test, $E_{mn}$, were investigated and it is shown that under the proportional hazard model $E_{mn}$ has higher power compared to the powers of the Kolmogorov -Smirnov, Kuiper, Cramer-von Mises, and analogue of the Cramer-von Mises type test statistic.

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Robust Inference for Testing Order-Restricted Inference

  • Kang, Moon-Su
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.1097-1102
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    • 2009
  • Classification of subjects with unknown distribution in small sample size setup may involve order-restricted constraints in multivariate parameter setups. Those problems makes optimality of conventional likelihood ratio based statistical inferences not feasible. Fortunately, Roy (1953) introduced union-intersection principle(UIP) which provides an alternative avenue. Redescending M-estimator along with that principle yields a considerably appropriate robust testing procedure. Furthermore, conditionally distribution-free test based upon exact permutation theory is used to generate p-values, even in small sample. Applications of this method are illustrated in simulated data and read data example (Lobenhofer et al., 2002)

An Adaptive Distribution-Free Test for the Multi-Sample Lacation Problem

  • Song, Il-Seong
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.32-41
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    • 1984
  • An adaptive distribution-free test is proposed for testing the equality of k independent distributions against unrestricted alternatives. In this paper, several rank-sum test statistics are considered as teh components of the adaptive one. The emprical powers of the adaptive testing procedure are compared to those of the classical F test and the component tests through a Monte Carlo study. The results show that the adaptive test has good power properties over a wide class of underlying distributions.

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Hypothesis Testing for New Scores in a Linear Model

  • Park, Young-Hun
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.1007-1015
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    • 2003
  • In this paper we introduced a new score generating function for the rank dispersion function in a general linear model. Based on the new score function, we derived the null asymptotic theory of the rank-based hypothesis testing in a linear model. In essence we showed that several rank test statistics, which are primarily focused on our new score generating function and new dispersion function, are mainly distribution free and asymptotically converges to a chi-square distribution.

ASYMPTPTIC DISTRIBUTION OF LIKELINOOD RATIO STATISTIC FOR TESTING MULTISAMPLE SPHERICITY

  • Gupta, A.K.;Nagar, D.K.;Jain, Kalpana
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.14-26
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    • 1992
  • In this paper, asymptotic expansions of the distribution of the likelihood ratio statistic for testing multisample sphericity have been derived in the null and nonnull cases when the alternatives are close to the null hypothesis. These expansions are obtained in the form of series of data distributions.

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Testing the Goodness of Fit of a Parametric Model via Smoothing Parameter Estimate

  • Kim, Choongrak
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.645-660
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    • 2001
  • In this paper we propose a goodness-of-fit test statistic for testing the (null) parametric model versus the (alternative) nonparametric model. Most of existing nonparametric test statistics are based on the residuals which are obtained by regressing the data to a parametric model. Our test is based on the bootstrap estimator of the probability that the smoothing parameter estimator is infinite when fitting residuals to cubic smoothing spline. Power performance of this test is investigated and is compared with many other tests. Illustrative examples based on real data sets are given.

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The Nonparametric Test for Detecting Main Effects for Three-Way ANOVA Models

  • Park, Young-Hun
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.419-432
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    • 1996
  • When interactions are not present in a three-way layout, the lim-iting null distribution of the F statistic for testing main effects when applied to the rank-score transformed data is the same as the limiting null distribution of the usual F statistic when applied to the normal data. The simulation results exhibit that the rank transform test is robust with respect to significance level and powerful for testing main effects in a three-way factorial experiment.

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On Testing Equality of Matrix Intraclass Covariance Matrices of $K$Multivariate Normal Populations

  • Kim, Hea-Jung
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.55-64
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    • 2000
  • We propose a criterion for testing homogeneity of matrix intraclass covariance matrices of K multivariate normal populations, It is based on a variable transformation intended to propose and develop a likelihood ratio criterion that makes use of properties of eigen structures of the matrix intraclass covariance matrices. The criterion then leads to a simple test that uses an asymptotic distribution obtained from Box's (1949) theorem for the general asymptotic expansion of random variables.

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