Research Article

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

Table 4

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; are either the , , , , or distribution.

Copula Bootstrap method I Bootstrap method II

, 3.8 3.7 3.6 0.7 5.7 2.8
6.7 6.4 10.7 1.9 11.7 8.8
12.2 8.4 20.6 7.4 21.0 20.6
51.4 31.6 74.9 69.2 81.5 84.7
65.9 35.5 80.8 50.9 57.3 80.9

, 3.5 3.2 3.5 0.0 4.2 2.8
9.4 10.4 15.1 1.3 20.5 12.8
27.8 23.4 36.0 6.4 48.7 36.2
76.0 58.6 91.0 84.9 96.3 96.4
94.0 81.1 97.3 76.9 93.7 97.3

, 3.8 3.4 5.0 0.3 5.2 3.5
7.4 6.6 12.1 1.3 12.7 12.2
15.1 11.5 17.8 7.7 26.5 19.7
55.5 34.8 59.9 73.2 85.1 81.7
69.6 46.7 74.9 54.0 66.8 75.3

, 4.3 4.4 4.7 0.4 5.0 3.7
9.7 11.3 13.5 2.5 16.4 13.1
24.6 25.6 26.4 9.2 35.0 25.9
80.8 74.3 82.6 78.1 91.7 89.1
83.3 75.2 86.2 63.8 82.2 86.7