McAleer, Michael; Wong, Wing-Keung; Bian, Bian, G. - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus … - 2010
This paper develops a new test, the trinomial test, for pairwise ordinal data samples to improve the power of the sign …. Simulations demonstrate the power superiority of the proposed trinomial test statistic over the sign test in small samples in the … presence of tie observations. We also show that the proposed trinomial test has substantially higher power than the sign test …