A robust procedure for testing an assumed value of the population correlation coefficient

Abstract

For testing that the population correlations coefficientp Q, Tiku and Balakrishnan1986) developed a robust test. This test is extended here to situcitions where one wants to test that p p , p being a specified non-zero value of p. o o

Keywords:

• tests for correlation
• robustness
• modified maximum likelihood estomators
• outliers
• type. I error