Asymptotic Efficiencies of a Nonparametric Life Test for Smaller Percentiles of a Gamma Distribution
伽马分布较低分位点非参数寿命检验的渐近效率
This paper does not present new statistical methods. Rather, it shows that a well known nonparametric procedure which is valid under extremely general conditions also has high efficiency and other favorable properties for certain types of life testing situations. This nonparametric method is the sign test and its confidence interval and point estimate analogs. Sign test procedures and methods of applying them have already received extensive coverage in the literature (e.g.,…