Abstract

We develop uniformly most powerful unbiased (UMPU) two sample equivalence test for a difference of canonical parameters in exponential families. This development involves a non-unique reparameterization. We address this issue via a novel characterization of all possible reparameterizations of interest in terms of a matrix group. Furthermore, our procedure involves an intractable conditional distribution which we reproduce to a high degree of accuracy using saddle point approximations. The development of this saddle point-based procedure involves a non-unique reparameterization, but we show that our procedure is invariant under choice of reparameterization. Our real data example considers the mean-to-variance ratio for normally distributed data. We compare our result to six competing equivalence testing procedures for the mean-to-variance ratio. Only our UMPU method finds evidence of equivalence, which is the expected result. We also perform a Monte Carlo simulation study which shows that our UMPU method outperforms all competing methods by exhibiting an empirical significance level which is not statistically significantly different from the nominal 5% level for all simulation settings.

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Mathematics and Statistics

Keywords and Phrases

Equivalence tests; Exponential families; Saddlepoint approximations; Uniformly most powerful test

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1613-9798; 0932-5026

Document Type

Article - Journal

Document Version

Final Version

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text

Language(s)

English

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© 2023 Springer, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jan 2022

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