3.8 Procedures Based on the Sign Statistic
Data. We obtain 
observations 
.
observations .Assumptions
D1. The 
's are mutually independent.
's are mutually independent.D2. Each 
comes from the same continuous population with median 
, so that 
.
comes from the same continuous population with median , so that .Procedures
To test 
, where 
is some specified number, we form the modified observations 
, for 
. Then we can apply any of the test procedures of Section 3.4 to these modified 
observations. (In the ...
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