Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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416988 | Computational Statistics & Data Analysis | 2011 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
The Birnbaum–Saunders distribution has been used quite effectively to model times to failure for materials subject to fatigue and for modeling lifetime data. In this paper we obtain asymptotic expansions, up to order n−1/2n−1/2 and under a sequence of Pitman alternatives, for the non-null distribution functions of the likelihood ratio, Wald, score and gradient test statistics in the Birnbaum–Saunders regression model. The asymptotic distributions of all four statistics are obtained for testing a subset of regression parameters and for testing the shape parameter. Monte Carlo simulation is presented in order to compare the finite-sample performance of these tests. We also present two empirical applications.
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Authors
Artur J. Lemonte, Silvia L.P. Ferrari,