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Abstract Details
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Activity Number:
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581
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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ENAR
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| Abstract - #301320 |
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Title:
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An Alternative Test of Location Parameter
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Author(s):
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Chand K. Chauhan*+ and Yvonne M. Zubovic
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Companies:
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Indiana Purdue University and Indiana Purdue University
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Address:
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2101 E Colesium Blvd, Fort Wayne, IN, 46805,
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Keywords:
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percentiles
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Abstract:
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In this paper the authors discuss a test for the mean of a normally distributed population when only two percentile values, such as the seventy fifth and the twenty fifth, are known. The suggested test may be useful when only two percentile values of a sample are available. The distribution of the suggested test statistic can be approximated by a t distribution. Simulation study is used to calculate the performance of the proposed test and it is compared with that of a regular t test when all the data values are available. The results are derived for several different sample sizes and for several percentile values.
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