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DISTRIBUTION‐FREE TESTS BASED ON SUB‐SAMPLE EXTREMA FOR TESTING AGAINST POSITIVE DEPENDENCE
Author(s) -
Kochar Subhash C.,
Gupta R.P.
Publication year - 1990
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.1990.tb00998.x
Subject(s) - statistics , null hypothesis , independence (probability theory) , statistical hypothesis testing , mathematics , maxima and minima , null distribution , econometrics
Summary A class of distribution‐free tests based on U‐statistics has been proposed for testing the null hypothesis of independence against positive quadrant dependence. The tests are based on U‐statistics and the Kendall's‐tau test belongs to this class.