ArticleOriginal scientific text
Title
The robustness against dependence of nonparametric tests for the two-sample location problem
Authors 1
Affiliations
- Institute of Mathematics, Warsaw University of Technology, Pl. Politechniki 1, 00-661 Warszawa, Poland
Abstract
Nonparametric tests for the two-sample location problem are investigated. It is shown that the supremum of the size of any test can be arbitrarily close to 1. None of these tests is most robust against dependence.
Keywords
size of test, robustness of tests, nonparametric tests for the two-sample location problem, robustness against dependence
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Pages:
469-476
Main language of publication
English
Received
1993-10-25
Published
1995
Exact and natural sciences