At times we wish to examine statistical evidence, and determine whether it supports or contradicts a claim that has been made (or that we might wish to make) concerning the entire population. This is ...

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The Canadian Journal of Statistics / La Revue Canadienne de Statistique, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Jun., 1999), pp. 383-394 (12 pages) This paper examines likelihood-ratio tests concerning the relationships ...

Business owners like to know how their decisions will impact their businesses. According to Harvard Business School Online, before making decisions, managers may explore the benefits of hypothesis ...

In this paper we prove the asymptotic normality of two statistics which have been proposed to test the hypothesis that two samples come from the same parent population. One statistic is the number of ...

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