Abstract

Abstract Explicit expressions for the level of significance and power of Stein's two-stage hypothesis testing procedure are derived when the normal population is mixed with another normal population differing in the mean. Approximate expansions for these expressions have been obtained, and numerical studies of the size have been carried out using the expansions. Some numerical indication of the accuracy of the approximations has also been obtained. Stein's two-stage procedure is quite robust against mixtures of normal populations differing in location parameters. Similar conclusions can be drawn regarding the coverage probabilities of confidence intervals generated by this procedure.

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