Open AccessNon-Parametric Tests for Testing of Scale Parameters
Author(s) -
Manish Goyal,
Narinder Kumar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of modern applied statistical methods
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.169
H-Index - 28
ISSN - 1538-9472
DOI - 10.22237/jmasm/1619482440
Subject(s) - mathematics , parametric statistics , scale (ratio) , statistical hypothesis testing , statistics , scale parameter , null hypothesis
One of the fundamental problems in testing of equality of populations is of testing the equality of scale parameters. The subsequent usages for scale are dispersion, spread and variability. In this paper, we proposed non-parametric tests based on U-Statistics for the testing of equality of scale parameters. The null distribution of proposed tests is developed and its Pitman efficiency is worked out to compare proposed tests with respect to some existing tests. Simulation study is carried out to compute the asymptotic power of proposed tests. An illustrative example is also provided.