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SCRA 2002-FIM IX: Ninth International Conference of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics on Statistics Combinatorics and Related Areas
December 21-23, 2002
Department of Statistics and Department of Mathematics: University of Allahabad
Allahabad, UP, India

Organizers
Satya Mishra, Anoop Chaturvedi, Bhu Dev Sharma

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Locally Most Powerful and Other Rank Tests for Independence-with a contaminated weighted alternative
by
Parameshwar V. Pandit
Dept. of Statistics, Karnatak Arts College,Dharwad-580001, India

The quantification of the concept of stochastic dependence for bivariate distribution has been attempted by several authors in the literature. Two weighted rank tests for testing independence against a weighted contamination alternative is proposed and their distributional properties are studied. We also derived a locally most powerful rank test for the alternative setting. The rank tests proposed are shown to be asymptotic locally most powerful for specific distributions.

Keywords and Phrases: Weighted rank tests, Independence tests, locally most powerful rank tests.

Date received: September 10, 2002

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