Power of Rank Tests Against Location Shift Alternative
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چکیده
We study the power of some exceedance rank tests against location shift and Lehman alternatives for distributions from the uniform, normal, exponential, gamma, and lognormal families. We give the corresponding power functions, obtained by Monte Carlo simulation and discuss the relative merits of the tests.
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