ON SOME SELECTION AND RANKING PROCEDURES WITH APPLICATIONS TO MULTIVARIATE POPULATIONS.

Abstract

A problem of subset selection for parameters which are not necessarily scale or location parameters is considered. A general theorem dealing with the infimum of the probability of a correct selection for parameters occurring in densities which are Poisson mixtures of arbitrary densities on the interval (0, infinity) is proved. This theorem is applied to obtain the minimum value of the probability of a correct selection in several cases where multivariate normal populations are ranked according to a given scalar quantity.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0623217

Entities

People

  • Shanti Gupta
  • William J. Studden

Organizations

  • Purdue University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Intervals
  • Probability

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Regression Analysis.