Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences
Volume 8 (2004), Issue 4, Pages 235-246
doi:10.1155/S117391260400015X
Abstract
This paper studies the effect of the normal distribution assumption on the power and size of the sign test, Wilcoxon's signed rank test and the t-test when used in one-sample location problems. Power functions for these tests under various skewness and kurtosis conditions are produced for several sample sizes from simulated data using the g-and-k distribution of MacGillivray and Cannon [5].