A robust procedure for testing the equality of mean vectors of two bivariate populations with unequal covariance matrices |
| |
| Authors: | M L Tiku P S Gill N Balakrishnan |
| |
| Institution: | Department of Mathematics and Statistics , McMaster University , Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1, Canada |
| |
| Abstract: | A robust test is developed for testing equality of the mean vectors of two bivariate (multivariate) populations when the variance-covariance matrices are not necessarily equal. The test is an extension of the univariate robust test given by Tiku and Singh (1981). |
| |
| Keywords: | robustness mean vectors Hotelling T2 estimators outliers multivariate distributions |
|
