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Biometrika Advance Access originally published online on November 19, 2007
Biometrika 2007 94(4):992-998; doi:10.1093/biomet/asm065
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© 2007 Biometrika Trust

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Use of the Gibbs Sampler to Obtain Conditional Tests, with Applications

Richard A. Lockhart

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada lockhart{at}stat.sfu.ca

Federico J. O'Reilly

Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico federico{at}sigma.iimas.unam.mx

Michael A. Stephens

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada stephens{at}stat.sfu.ca

Received for publication 1 March 2006. Revision received 1 March 2007.

A random sample is drawn from a distribution which admits a minimal sufficient statistic for the parameters. The Gibbs sampler is proposed to generate samples, called conditionally sufficient or co-sufficient samples, from the conditional distribution of the sample given its value of the sufficient statistic. The procedure is illustrated for the gamma distribution. Co-sufficient samples may be used to give exact tests of fit; for the gamma distribution these are compared for size and power with approximate tests based on the parametric bootstrap.

Key Words: Empirical distribution function test • Goodness-of-fit test • Parametric bootstrap • Rao–Blackwell • Sufficient statistic



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