Research Article

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

Table 2

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

, 5.3 4.0 5.5 2.9 4.7 5.6
9.5 8.7 10.9 5.6 10.7 10.6
17.3 13.8 20.5 12.9 21.1 21.0
76.1 64.2 78.6 75.0 80.3 82.4
75.0 51.6 79.0 64.7 58.3 76.0

, 4.3 4.0 5.5 0.9 3.8 3.7
11.2 13.3 13.4 6.0 17.7 13.3
28.0 27.1 32.3 19.2 37.7 33.1
85.6 76.7 86.5 84.8 91.2 90.0
87.4 77.4 86.6 77.0 80.9 86.0

, 3.9 4.2 4.0 2.1 5.1 4.4
10.0 7.6 10.2 6.3 11.0 9.5
20.9 16.1 20.0 13.9 22.3 19.7
74.5 64.0 80.2 76.0 82.1 83.1
74.0 52.8 77.5 63.4 58.9 75.0

, 4.9 4.7 4.6 2.0 5.2 3.7
9.9 10.9 13.8 5.8 14.5 12.8
25.1 24.1 29.8 17.1 33.7 30.2
79.8 72.5 84.5 81.2 88.6 88.6
84.3 72.2 87.7 75.4 78.2 86.7