Optimum Test Procedures for the Mean of First Passage Time Distribution in Brownian Motion with Positive Drift (Inverse Gaussian Distribution)
- 1 May 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Technometrics
- Vol. 18 (2) , 189
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1267521
Abstract
In this paper we discuss testing hypotheses and interval estimation for the mean of the first passage time distribution in Brownian motion with positive drift (inverse Gaussian distribution). Optimum test procedures and confidence intervals for both one-sided and two-sided cases are derived in their exact forms, which utilize the percentage points of standard normal and Student's t distributions. In thecase of an hypothesis with a two-sided alternative, it is shown that a uniformly most powerful (UMP) unbiased test is simply a two-tailed normal test if the nuisance parameter is known, and a two-tailed Student's t test if it is unknown.Keywords
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