MOTIVATION Recently a class of nonparametric statistical methods, including the empirical Bayes (EB) method, the significance analysis of microarray (SAM) method and the mixture model method (MMM), have been proposed to detect differential gene expression for replicated microarray experiments conducted under two conditions. All the methods depend on constructing a test statistic Z and a so-call...

In this paper, we use two statistics for detecting outliers in exponentiated Paretodistribution. These statistics are the extension of the statistics for detecting outliers inexponential and gamma distributions. In fact, we compare the power of our test statisticsbased on the simulation study and identify the better test statistic for detecting outliers inexponentiated Pareto distribution. At t...

A unified family of goodness-of-fit tests based on φ-divergences is introduced and studied. The new family of test statistics Sn(s) includes both the supremum version of the Anderson–Darling statistic and the test statistic of Berk and Jones [Z. Wahrsch. Verw. Gebiete 47 (1979) 47–59] as special cases (s = 2 and s = 1, resp.). We also introduce integral versions of the new statistics. We show t...

In a blind search for continuous gravitational wave signals scanning a wide frequency band one looks for candidate events with significantly large values of the detection statistic. Unfortunately, a noise line in the data may also produce a moderately large detection statistic. In this paper, we describe how we can distinguish between noise line events and actual continuous wave (CW) signals, b...