On the Monotonicity Property of the Three Main Tests for Multivariate Analysis of Variance
多元方差分析三种主要检验的单调性
Summary This paper presents a unified and relatively simple proof of the monotonicity property of the three well-known tests for the multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), viz., (i) Hotelling-Lawley trace criterion, (ii) Wilks's likelihood-ratio criterion, and (iii) Roy's largest root criterion. The last one has already been considered by Roy and Mikhail (1961). Their proof, however, has a gap at one place, which has been bridged in this paper.