Ahad, Nor Aishah and Abdullah, Suhaida and Lai, Choo Heng and Mohd Ali, Nazihah (2012) Relative power-performance of t-test and bootstrap procedure for two-sample. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities , 20 (1). pp. 43-52. ISSN 0128-7702

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Abstract

The classical procedures of comparing two groups, such as t-test are, usually restricted with the assumptions of normality and equal variances.When these assumptions are violated, the rates of the Type I errors of the independent samples t-test are affected, particularly when the sample sizes are small.In this situation, the bootstrap procedure has an advantage over the parametric.In this study, the performances of the bootstrap procedure and the independent sample 1-test were investigated. The investigation focused on the power of both the test procedures to compare the two groups under different design specifications for normal and chi-square distributions.The results showed that the bootstrap procedure has 21 slight edge over the conventional t-test in term of the rate of achieving the benchmark level for both the distributions.In fact, the bootstrap procedure consistently outperformed the convention t-test across all the combinations of the test conditions.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Bootstrap, power, I-test
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics
Divisions:	College of Arts and Sciences
Depositing User:	Mrs. Nor Aishah Ahad
Date Deposited:	22 May 2013 08:32
Last Modified:	22 May 2013 08:32
URI:	https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/7436

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