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Register a new userThe Mann-Whitney U-statistic for $alpha$-dependent sequences
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Jerome Dedecker
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2016
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Mathematical Statistics
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English
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Jer^ome Dedecker
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We give the asymptotic behavior of the Mann-Whitney U-statistic for two independent stationary sequences. The result applies to a large class of short-range dependent sequences, including many non-mixing processes in the sense of Rosenblatt. We also give some partial results in the long-range dependent case, and we investigate other related questions. Based on the theoretical results, we propose some simple corrections of the usual tests for stochastic domination; next we simulate different (non-mixing) stationary processes to see that the corrected tests perform well.
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