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Comments to question in last exercise session

Re: Comments to question in last exercise session

von Sonja Greven -
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Maybe to further clarify on both points:
1. While d_22 implies d_21, as the covariance cannot be different from zero if the variance is zero, is it clearer to write H_0 : d_22 = d_21 = 0, as this makes it more explicit that we are testing two parameters.
2. Of these two parameters,
  • d_22 is on the boundary of the parameter space under the null and only testing H_0: d_22 =0 would result in a mixture distribution of a point mass at zero and a chi-square distribution with one degree of freedom as explained on the slides for d_11.
  • d_21 is not on the boundary of the parameter space under the null and just testing this parameter would result in a chi-square distribution with one degree of freedom as usual.
The limiting distribution when testing both at the same time is the sum of this chi-square-1 and this mixture distribution, which is the mixture distribution of a chi-square-1 and a chi-square-2 given on the slides. (Similarly to the usual chi-square-2 distribution that we would get without the boundary issue corresponding to the sum of two independent chi-square-1 distributed variables.)