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    Wu, Ronghuo; Qin, Yongsong

    Mathematics (Basel), 07/2022, Volume: 10, Issue: 13
    Journal Article

    The empirical likelihood ratio test (ELRT) statistic is constructed for testing the homogeneity of several nonparametric populations in the presence of some auxiliary information. It is shown—under some regularity conditions and under the null hypothesis that all distribution functions of the populations are equal—that the asymptotic distribution of the ELRT is a chi-squared distribution. The proposed ELRT could be more powerful than the Kruskal–Wallis test, as extra information can be efficiently employed by ELRT. The advantage of ELRT over T&P (2006) is that researchers do not need to select approximately normal statistics for inter-group comparisons, and ELRT is more suitable for the multi-population consistency test with a small sample size.