Optimal testing of equivalence hypotheses

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1036-1047

  Romano, Joseph P ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotically maximin; Efficiency; Equivalence tests; Hypothesis tests; Large sample theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 23744499740     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053605000000048     Document Type: Article

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