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One-sample location tests for multilevel data
Authors:Denis Larocque  Jaakko Nevalainen  Hannu Oja
Institution:

aDepartment of Quantitative Methods, HEC Montréal, 3000 chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal, Qué., Canada H3T 2A7

bTampere School of Public Health, 33014 University of Tampere, Finland

Abstract:In this paper, we consider testing the location parameter with multilevel (or hierarchical) data. A general family of weighted test statistics is introduced. This family includes extensions to the case of multilevel data of familiar procedures like the t, the sign and the Wilcoxon signed-rank tests. Under mild assumptions, the test statistics have a null limiting normal distribution which facilitates their use. An investigation of the relative merits of selected members of the family of tests is achieved theoretically by deriving their asymptotic relative efficiency (ARE) and empirically via a simulation study. It is shown that the performance of a test depends on the clusters configurations and on the intracluster correlations. Explicit formulas for optimal weights and a discussion of the impact of omitting a level are provided for 2 and 3-level data. It is shown that using appropriate weights can greatly improve the performance of the tests. Finally, the use of the new tests is illustrated with a real data example.
Keywords:Multilevel data  Hierarchical data  Sign test  Wilcoxon signed-rank test  Clustered data  Asymptotic efficiency
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