Abstract
The comparison of the means of two treatments or populations when more than one variable is measured may be done using Hotelling's T2 statistic. In many real world situations the data obtained are dichotomous, and the assumption of multivariate normality upon which Hotelling's T2 is based is no longer valid. In this paper, an approximate Hotelling T2 test is proposed for bivariate dichotomous data and empirically evaluated in terms of Type I error rate. It is shown that the approximation does a good job of controlling the Type I error rate for a range of bivariate parameters even for relatively small sample sizes.
Keywords
bivariate data, dichotomous response, Hotelling T2, multivariate analysis
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Recommended Citation
Singh, Pradeep; Khamis, Imad; and Higgins, James
(2003).
"HOTELLING'S T2 APPROXIMATION FOR BIVARIATE DICHOTOMOUS DATA,"
Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture.
https://doi.org/10.4148/2475-7772.1187
HOTELLING'S T2 APPROXIMATION FOR BIVARIATE DICHOTOMOUS DATA
The comparison of the means of two treatments or populations when more than one variable is measured may be done using Hotelling's T2 statistic. In many real world situations the data obtained are dichotomous, and the assumption of multivariate normality upon which Hotelling's T2 is based is no longer valid. In this paper, an approximate Hotelling T2 test is proposed for bivariate dichotomous data and empirically evaluated in terms of Type I error rate. It is shown that the approximation does a good job of controlling the Type I error rate for a range of bivariate parameters even for relatively small sample sizes.
