Robust Statistical Procedures For Testing The Equality Of Central Tendency Parameters Under Skewed Distributions

• Main Author: Soaad Syed Yahaya., Sharipah
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: LC5800-5808 Distance education.
• Online Access: http://eprints.usm.my/48011/1/Robust%20statistical%20prodedures%20for%20testing24.pdf; http://eprints.usm.my/48011/
• Institution: Universiti Sains Malaysia

This study examined the effect of Type I error and power on two types of robust methods. The first method is known as the S1 statistic, which was first studied by Babu et al. (1999). This statistic uses median as the central tendency measure. An interesting characteristic of the S1 statistic is that...