ON THE JOINT DISTRIBUTION OF GRUBBS' STATISTICS

TEA-YUAN HWANG1 AND CHIN-YUAN HU2

1 Institute of Statistics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30043, Taiwan, R.O.C.
2 Department of Business Education, National Changhua University of Education,
Changhua 50058, Taiwan, R.O.C.

(Received March 5, 1993; revised April 15, 1994)

Abstract.    In this paper, the joint pdf's of Grubbs' statistics for normal and exponential populations are obtained; and relationship between the two pdf's is established. New formulations of the first marginal pdf of Grubbs' statistics for these two populations are given; the formulation of the exponential population case is a new one. Iterative formulas for the pdf of Grubbs' statistics are also obtained.

Key words and phrases:    Exponential distribution, Grubbs' statistics, normal distribution.

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