Premium
BAYESIAN TEST OF HYPOTHESIS IN THE MULTINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION
Author(s) -
Samiuddin M.,
Hanif Muhammad
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
australian journal of statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-842X
pISSN - 0004-9581
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-842x.1977.tb01084.x
Subject(s) - multinomial distribution , dirichlet distribution , test statistic , prior probability , statistics , bayesian probability , homogeneity (statistics) , mathematics , statistic , econometrics , statistical hypothesis testing , mathematical analysis , boundary value problem
Summary For Dirichlet priors in a multinomial distribution the Bayesian test of a simple hypothesis parallels the Bartlett test of homogeneity of variances in normal samples. This parallelism enables a correction factor to be developed for a particular test statistic along the lines of Bartlett's correction. The performance of the corrected test statistic is studied numerically.