Test for homogeneity with unordered paired observations

DOI10.1214/21-EJS1817MaRDI QIDQ2044352zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jiahua Chen, Jing Qin, Tao Yu, Pengfei Li

Publication date 9 August 2021

Published in Electronic Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.01402

zbMATH Keywords

Bartlett correctionlikelihood ratio testtwo-sample testadjusted limiting distributioncorrelated unordered pairs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Asymptotic properties of parametric tests (62F05)

Abstract: In some applications, an experimental unit is composed of two distinct but related subunits. The response from such a unit is $(X_1,X_2)$ but we observe only $Y_1=min{X}_1,X_2$ and $Y_2=max{X}_1,X_2$, i.e., the subunit identities are not observed. We call $(Y_1,Y_2)$ unordered paired observations. Based on unordered paired observations ${(Y_{1i},Y_{2i})}_{i=1}^n$, we are interested in whether the marginal distributions for $X_1$ and $X_2$ are identical. Testing methods are available in the literature under the assumptions that $Var(X_1)=Var(X_2)$ and $Cov(X_1,X_2)=0$. However, by extensive simulation studies, we observe that when one or both assumptions are violated, these methods have inflated type I errors or much lower powers. In this paper, we study the likelihood ratio test statistics for various scenarios and explore their limiting distributions without these restrictive assumptions. Furthermore, we develop Bartlett correction formulae for these statistics to enhance their precision when the sample size is not large. Simulation studies and real-data examples are used to illustrate the efficacy of the proposed methods.

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