Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4664831 | Acta Mathematica Scientia | 2010 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
We consider testing hypotheses concerning comparing dispersions between two parameter vectors of multinomial distributions in both one-sample and two-sample cases. The comparison criterion is the concept of Schur majorization. A new dispersion index is proposed for testing the hypotheses. The corresponding test for the one-sample problem is an exact test. For the two-sample problem, the bootstrap is used to approximate the null distribution of the test statistic and the p-value. We prove that the bootstrap test is asymptotically correct and consistent. Simulation studies for the bootstrap test are reported and a real life example is presented.
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