Abstract
The problem of testing normal mean vector when the observations are missing from subsets of components is considered. For a data matrix with a monotone pattern, three simple exact tests are proposed as alternatives to the traditional likelihood ratio test. Numerical power comparisons between the proposed tests and the likelihood ratio test suggest that one of the proposed tests is indeed comparable to the likelihood ratio test and the other two tests perform better than the likelihood ratio test over a part of the parameter space. The results are extended to a nonmonotone pattern and illustrated using an example.
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Krishnamoorthy, K., Pannala, M.K. Some Simple Test Procedures for Normal Mean Vector with Incomplete Data. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 50, 531–542 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003581513299
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