The Hotelling’s T2 Tests Revisited
摘要
This study revisits Hotelling’s T2 (HT) tests for one- and two-sample mean problems, introduces a family of scaled Hotelling’s T2-type tests and develops two omnibus tests, termed Omnibus Hotelling’s T2 (HT-O), for both cases. Furthermore, the authors analyze the powers of the HT-O tests through the asymptotic null distributions of the scaled Hotelling’s T2-type tests. Extensive simulation results demonstrate that the proposed HT-O tests effectively control Type I error and maintain high power under complex correlation structures, outperforming the classical HT tests in various scenarios. Applications to anti-depressant imipramine efficacy and α-amylase activity further highlight the superior performance and practical utility of the HT-O tests.