Abstract
Multivariate isotonic regression theory plays an important role in the field of testing statistical hypotheses under order restriction for several vector valued parameters and this problem may arise in several situations. Sasabuchi et al. derived a likelihood ratio type test for homogeneity of order restricted mean vectors under a multivariate normality assumption with unknown and common covariance matrices; however, its null distribution depends on the unknown covariance matrix. In order to overcome this difficulty, in the present paper we propose a test that conditions on the sufficient statistic for the covariance matrix. We remove the dependence of the null distribution of test statistic proposed by Sasabuchi et al. on the unknown value of covariance matrix and present a condition on a sufficient statistic for covariance matrix under the null hypothesis. A method based on Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling is used to calculate the value of the test. We evaluate the operating characteristics of the proposed test through simulation studies. Our extensive simulation studies demonstrate that the power of this new test is generally higher than the test proposed by Sasabuchi et al. and also by Sasabuchi. A real data example is presented.
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