Accession Number:

AD0743194

Title:

A Sequential Nonparametric Test for Symmetry with Applications to Process Control.

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.,

Corporate Author:

STANFORD UNIV CALIF DEPT OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH

Personal Author(s):

• Reynolds,Marion R. , Jr

Report Date:

1972-05-15

Pagination or Media Count:

110.0

Abstract:

The problem to be considered in ths dissertation is one of testing that a sequence of observations has a distribution that is symmetric about a specified value. The authors considers testing for symmetry in traditional hypothesis testing problems and also in a problem in process control where it is desired to detect when the mean of a sequence of observations changes from a specified value. The procedures to be used are sequential nonparametric procedures based on a signed sequential rank statistic originally developed by Parent 1956. Author

Descriptors:

• (*STATISTICAL TESTS
• SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS)
• PROBABILITY
• RANDOM VARIABLES
• MEASURE THEORY
• BROWNIAN MOTION
• DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS
• ASYMPTOTIC SERIES
• THEOREMS

Subject Categories:

• Statistics and Probability

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE