The Exact Likelihood Ratio Test for Equality of Two Normal Populations

Testing the equality of two independent normal populations is a perfect case of the two-sample problem, yet it is not treated in the main text of any textbook or handbook. In this article, we derive the exact distribution of the likelihood ratio test and implement this test with an R function. This article has supplementary materials online.

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	Zhang, Lingyun ; Xu, Xinzhong ; Chen, Gemai
Published in:	The American Statistician. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 0003-1305. - Vol. 66.2012, 3, p. 180-184
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis Journals

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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