Smoothed nonparametric tests and approximations of p-values

DOI10.1007/S10463-017-0614-0MaRDI QIDQ1786898zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yoshihiko Maesono, Taku Moriyama, Mengxin Lu

Publication date 25 September 2018

Published in Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02145

zbMATH Keywords

Edgeworth expansionkernel estimatorsign testWilcoxon's signed rank testsignificance probability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20)

Abstract: In this paper we propose new smoothed sign and Wilcoxon's signed rank tests, which are based on a kernel estimator of the underlying distribution function of data. We discuss approximations of $p$-values and asymptotic properties of these tests. The new smoothed tests are equivalent to the ordinary sign and Wilcoxon's tests in the sense of the Pitman's asymptotic relative efficiency, and the differences of the ordinary and the new tests converge to zero in probability. Under the null hypothesis, the main terms of the asymptotic expectations and variances of the tests do not depend on the underlying distribution. Though the smoothed tests are not distribution-free, we can obtain Edgeworth expansions with residual term $o(n^{-1})$, which do not depend on the underlying distribution.

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