题目
A researcher believes that the median of a population has changed from its known previous value . The researcher collects a random sample of size 28. She ranks the data and calculates a test statistic using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. The conclusion of the test carried out at a 1% significance level is that there is not sufficient evidence to support her belief.
Using a normal approximation, find the least possible value of .
题目中文翻译
一名研究者认为某总体的中位数 已经从其已知的先前值 发生了改变。该研究者收集了一个容量为 28 的随机样本。她对数据进行排序,并使用 Wilcoxon 符号秩检验计算检验统计量 。在 1% 显著性水平下进行检验后的结论是,没有足够证据支持她的看法。
使用正态近似,求 的最小可能值。
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备择假设是中位数发生变化,所以显著性水平平分到两尾。较小秩和的临界点用下尾,并加 作连续性修正。
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Under the null hypothesis, the sum of the positive ranks has mean and variance
The test statistic is the smaller of the positive and negative rank sums. By symmetry, a lower-tail probability for one signed sum is compared with for this two-sided test. To be outside the rejection region, the corrected statistic must satisfy
This gives . Since is an integer, the least possible value is .