Computational approach test in one-way fixed effects ANOVA models of log-normal samples

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Department of Statistics, Golestan University, Gorgan, Iran

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We apply a recently developed computational approach test to the one-way fixed effects ANOVA models of log-normal data with unequal variances. The merits of the proposed test are numerically compared with the existing tests - the James second order test, the Welch test and the Alexander-Govern test - with respect to their sizes and powers in different combinations of parameters and various sample sizes. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method is satisfactory: its type I error probability is very close to the nominal level. We illustrate these approaches using a real example.

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  • Receive Date: 10 December 2017
  • Revise Date: 18 May 2018
  • Accept Date: 25 July 2018

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