7. CENSORED SAMPLES FROM NORMAL AND NON-NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS
7.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................155
7.2 Estimation of parameters ........................................................................................155
7.3 Censored samples from normal distribution ..........................................................159
7.4 Symmetric censoring ...............................................................................................162
7.5 Censored samples in experimental design .............................................................167
7.6 Inliers in normal samples ........................................................................................169
7.7 Rayleigh distribution ...............................................................................................173
7.8 Censored samples from LTS distributions .............................................................176
7.9 Variances and covariances ......................................................................................179
7.10 Hypothesis testing ...................................................................................................181
7.11 Type I censoring .......................................................................................................182
7.12 Progressively censored samples ..............................................................................184
7.13 Truncated normal distribution ................................................................................186
7.14 Experimental design with truncated normal .........................................................189
Appendix 7A : Exponential Sample Spacings .........................................................193
Appendix 7B .............................................................................................................193
Appendix 7C : The coefficients for censored normal samples ................................194
8. ROBUSTNESS OF ESTIMATORS IN TESTS 195220
8.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................195
8.2 Robust estimators of location and scale ..................................................................195
8.3 Comparison for skew distributions .........................................................................199
8.4 Comparison with Tukey and Tiku estimators ........................................................200
8.5 Hypothesis testing ...................................................................................................200
8.6 Robustness for STS distributions ............................................................................202
8.7 Robustness of regression estimators .......................................................................204
8.8 Robustness of estimators in binary regression .......................................................209
8.9 Robustness of autoregression estimators ...............................................................212
8.10 Robustness in experimental design ........................................................................217
Appendix 8A : Simulated means, variances and efficiencies .................................220
9. GOODNESS-OF-FIT AND DETECTION OF OUTLIERS 225265
9.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................225
9.2 Q-Q plots ..................................................................................................................225
9.3 Goodness of fit tests .................................................................................................229
9.4 Directional test for any distribution .......................................................................232
9.5 Omnibus tests ..........................................................................................................238
9.6 Shapiro-Wilk test .....................................................................................................240
9.7 Filliben and Smith-Bain statistic ............................................................................241
9.8 Tiku statistics based on spacings ............................................................................241
9.9 Extension to non-exponential distributions ............................................................243
9.10 The omnibus U and U* tests ...................................................................................245
9.11 Extreme value distribution .....................................................................................247
9.12 Multi-sample situations ...........................................................................................248
9.13 Sample entropy statistics ........................................................................................250
9.14 Censored samples ....................................................................................................250
9.15 Outlier detection ......................................................................................................252
9.16 Testing for outliers ..................................................................................................253
9.17 Tiku approach to outlier detection ..........................................................................255
9.18 Power of the outlier tests.........................................................................................258
9.19 Testing the sample for outliers ...............................................................................261
Appendix 9A .............................................................................................................264
Appendix 9B .............................................................................................................265
10. ESTIMATION IN SAMPLE SURVEY 266280
10.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................266
10.2 Super-population model ..........................................................................................266
10.3 Symmetric family.....................................................................................................267
10.4 Finite population model...........................................................................................269
10.5 Sample size determination ......................................................................................271
10.6 Stratified sampling ..................................................................................................272
10.7 Skew distributions in sample survey ......................................................................273
10.8 Estimating the mean ...............................................................................................278
Appendix 10A ...........................................................................................................280
11. APPLICATIONS 281331
11.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................281
11.2 Estimators of location and scale parameters ..........................................................281
11.3 Determination of shape parameters .......................................................................288
11.4 Estimation in linear regression models ..................................................................289
11.5 Multiple linear regression .......................................................................................294
11.6 Autoregression .........................................................................................................297
11.7 Experimental design ................................................................................................299
Appendix 11A : MMLE for the beta distribution ....................................................304
Appendix 11B ...........................................................................................................305
Appendix 11C ...........................................................................................................306
BIBLIOGRAPHY 308
INDEX 331
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