TY - JOUR T1 - Type 1 Error Rate Comparison Between Classical and Modified Box M-Statistic AU - Sharif, Shamshuritawati AU - Ruslan, Nuraimi AU - A.M. Atiany, Tareq JO - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences VL - 13 IS - 5 SP - 1246 EP - 1252 PY - 2018 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1816-949x DO - jeasci.2018.1246.1252 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2018.1246.1252 KW - distribution KW -multivariate KW -S-estimator KW -M-estimator KW -type 1 error KW -Covariance matrix AB - Classical Box M-statisticis one of Likelihood Ratio Test (LRT) constructed under the multivariate normality distribution. The performance of classical Box M-statistic by using classical estimators suffers from masking and swamping effects when the outlier occurs in data set. To alleviate the problem, robust estimators are recommended. In this study, a robust Box M-statistic based on a S-estimator, Ms and M-estimator MM are proposed as the alternative to the classical Box M-statistic. Over the simulation study, the performance comparisonof classical, Ms and MM-statistics are measured using type 1 error rates. From the results, it showed that Ms (Box M-statistic based on S-estimator) has a competitive performance relative to MM and the classicalstatistic. In summary, Ms can be used for testing the equality of two difference covariance matrices or more when the data contains outlier. ER -