The likelihood ratio test is often used to test hypotheses involving a stochastic ordering. Distribution theory for the likelihood ratio test has been developed only for two stochastically ordered ...

Tang, Gnecco, and Geller (1989, Biometrika 76, 577-583) proposed an approximate likelihood ratio (ALR) test of the null hypothesis that a normal mean vector equals a null vector against the ...

There is much recent interest in finding rare genetic variants associated with various diseases. Owing to the scarcity of rare mutations, single-variant analyses often lack power. To enable pooling of ...