The emperor's new tests. (With comments and a rejoinder).

DOI10.1214/SS/1009212517zbMath1059.62515OpenAlexW1980499555MaRDI QIDQ1431177

Lang Wu, Michael D. Perlman

Publication date: 27 May 2004

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/ss/1009212517

zbMATH Keywords

likelihood ratio testpowersize testsignificance testunbiased testmultivariate one-sided alternativesd-admissibilitya-admissibilitybioequivalence problemFisher-Neyman debateHypothesis testmultiple endpoints in clinical trialsorder-restricted hypothesestest for qualitative interactions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

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