Affiliation:
1. Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
Abstract
A class of distribution-free tests for the homogeneity of location parameters is proposed and compared with different competitors in terms of Pitman asymptotic relative efficiency. A numerical example is provided and a simulation study is made to check the performance of the tests.
Subject
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty,Statistics and Probability
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