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In this paper, we introduce a notion of controllability of a nonparametric statistical test and compare the powers of a new controllable nonparametric statistical test and the Wilcoxon— Mann—Whitney test for cases with samples from exponential distributions.
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This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 16-07-00066).
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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2019, published in Sibirskii Zhurnal Vychislitel’noi Matematiki, 2019, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 309–316.
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Salov, G.I. Controllability of a New Nonparametric Statistical Criterion Alternative to the Wilcoxon—Mann—Whitney Test. Numer. Analys. Appl. 12, 263–269 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995423919030054
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