On the Power of the Extreme Spread.
Abstract
A variety of techniques are available for testing whether a random sample might reasonably be assumed to have come from a normal population. If, however, the random sample is a bivariate random sample the number of choices is greatly reduced. The purpose of this note is to suggest a new statistic for testing the hypothesis of bivariate normality in the case of known sigma which is easily computed and whose power seems to be far superior to the classical chi-square test, and in addition, may be used with small sample sizes, where the chi-square test is inappropriate.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1975
- Accession Number
- ADA016907
Entities
People
- Malcolm S. Taylor
Organizations
- Ballistic Research Laboratory