a Institute of Mathematics, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
b Department of Computer Science, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan
c Department of Statistics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3G3
Abstract:
We consider the problem of constructing a fixed-size confidence region for a linear function of mean vectors of k multinormal populations, where all covariance matrices are completely unknown. A two-stage procedure is proposed to construct such a confidence region. It is shown that the proposed two-stage procedure is consistent and its asymptotic property for the expected sample size is also given. A Monte Carlo simulation study is given for an illustration.