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The new test criterion for testing the homogeneity of parameters of several populations is proposed and the test properties of it is discussed. The asymptotic expansions of the distributions of test criterion are discussed under (i) null hypothesis, (ii) fixed alternative hypothesis and (iii) local alternative hypothesis converging to the null hypothesis with appropriate rate of convergence as the sample size increases. As a particular case the asymptotic theory of a statistic for a homogeneity of variances of normal populations is also discussed and the exact moments of it under a null hypothesis can be used to obtain a percentage point by a Pearsonian curve fitting.
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Hayakawa, T. The new test criterion for the homogeneity of parameters of several populations. Ann Inst Stat Math 28, 309–328 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02504749
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