An exact density-based empirical likelihood ratio test for paired data |
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Authors: | Albert Vexler Gregory Gurevich Alan D Hutson |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Biostatistics, New York State University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14214, USA;2. Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, SCE, Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel |
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Abstract: | The Wilcoxon rank-sum test and its variants are historically well-known to be very powerful nonparametric decision rules for testing no location difference between two groups given paired data versus a shift alternative. In this title, we propose a new alternative empirical likelihood (EL) ratio approach for testing the equality of marginal distributions given that sampling is from a continuous bivariate population. We show that in various shift alternative scenarios the proposed exact test is superior to the classic nonparametric procedures, which may break down completely or are frequently inferior to the density-based EL ratio test. This is particularly true in the cases where there is a nonconstant shift under the alternative or the data distributions are skewed. An extensive Monte Carlo study shows that the proposed test has excellent operating characteristics. We apply the density-based EL ratio test to analyze real data from two medical studies. |
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Keywords: | Density-based empirical likelihood Entropy Empirical likelihood Likelihood ratio Paired data Paired t-test Skewed distributions Test for symmetry Two-sample location problem Wilcoxon test |
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