Research Article

Two Bootstrap Strategies for a -Problem up to Location-Scale with Dependent Samples

Table 1

Percentages of rejection, as estimated from 1000 replicates, of the null hypothesis of the equality of distributions up to location/scale under Normal and asymmetric Normal dependence structures when ; is the Normal distribution; is either the , , , , or distribution.

Copula Bootstrap method I Bootstrap method II

, 3.4 3.5 3.3 1.5 6.5 3.0
6.3 5.5 5.7 3.5 8.4 5.8
10.8 8.4 11.3 5.4 15.4 10.5
41.9 29.2 45.9 37.1 49.3 46.6
36.6 20.9 38.8 21.3 28.5 35.2

, 4.6 4.8 4.9 0.4 5.6 3.4
7.4 8.7 8.0 3.1 13.1 6.6
13.2 12.6 14.7 5.1 20.9 13.1
48.6 41.1 54.0 41.8 63.8 55.9
53.6 39.5 57.1 28.7 47.3 51.9

, 4.9 4.4 5.2 1.5 5.9 4.3
6.8 5.3 7.6 2.4 8.3 6.9
10.8 9.2 12.1 5.8 14.9 10.6
37.6 26.8 40.1 33.1 48.4 44.0
38.4 21.6 40.4 22.7 30.6 35.1

, 4.1 4.5 5.2 0.7 5.2 2.9
6.5 7.2 7.5 1.7 10.4 5.8
13.4 13.0 15.5 6.2 21.5 14.1
49.7 40.9 54.2 42.9 61.3 57.0
48.8 35.2 51.3 27.5 44.0 45.5