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Sen Gupta (1988) considered a locally most powerful (LMP) test for testing nonzero values of the equicorrelation coefficient of a standard symmetric multivariate normal distribution. This paper constructs analogous tests for the symmetric multivariate normal distribution. It shows that the new test is uniformly most powerful invariant even in the presence of a nuisance parameter, σ2. Further applications of LMP invariant tests to several equicorrelated populations have been considered and an extension to panel data modeling has been suggested.
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Bhatti, M.I. On optimal testing for the equality of equicorrelation: An example of loss in power. Statistical Papers 41, 345–352 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02925927
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