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The presence of outliers in data set may affect structure of analysis of variance test so that test results led to wrong acceptance or rejection of null hypothesis. In this paper the method of robust permutation distribution of F statistic based on trimmed mean is proposed. This method by permutation distribution of a function of trimmed mean, reduces the sensitivity to classical assumptions such as normality and presence of outlier and it guarantees the reliability of result. The proposed method is compared with robust analysis of variance based of forward search approach. The proposed method, unlike the forward search-based approach is free of restricted parametric assumptions and computationally spend less time. Numerically assessment results on type I error and power of test, demonstrate good performance of this robust method in comparison with competitor method.

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Variances homogeneity test are mostly applied as a preliminary test to other analyses like test of equality of means. So far, several tests have been offered in randomized complete block design, that the most prevalent of them are Bartlett and Levene tests, and others are generalized kind of these two tests. The distribution of statistics for these tests are obtained asymptotically. Recently, a test has been introduced base on estimated critical values. In this paper, nine tests are examined based on estimated critical values method and their performance are evaluated with various blocks and treatment groups for normal and t-student distributions by a simulation study. The method of estimated critical values has a good performance in the type I error and a power improvement with respect to using asymptotic distribution.

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The most widely used model in small area estimation is the area level or the Fay-Herriot model. In this model, it is typically assumed that both the area level random effects (model errors) and the sampling errors have a Gaussian distribution.  However, considerable variations in error components (model errors and sampling errors) can cause poor performance in small area estimation. In this paper, to overcome this problem, the symmetric α-stable distribution is used to deal with outliers in the error components. The model parameters are estimated with the empirical Bayes method. The performance of the proposed model is investigated in different simulation scenarios and compared with the existing classic and robust empirical Bayes methods. The proposed model can improve estimation results, in particular when both error components are normal or have heavy-tailed distribution.

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This paper suggests Liu-type shrinkage estimators in linear regression model in the presence of multicollinearity under subspace information. The performance of the proposed estimators is compared to Liu-type estimator in terms of their relative efficiency via a Monte Carlo simulation study and a real data set. The results reveal that the proposed estimators outperform better than the Liu-type estimator.

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Model-based clustering is the most widely used statistical clustering method, in which heterogeneous data are divided into homogeneous groups using inference based on mixture models. The presence of measurement error in the data can reduce the quality of clustering and, for example, cause overfitting and produce spurious clusters. To solve this problem, model-based clustering assuming a normal distribution for measurement errors has been introduced. However, too large or too small (outlier) values ​​of measurement errors cause poor performance of existing clustering methods. To tackle this problem {and build a stable model against the presence of outlier measurement errors in the data}, in this article, a symmetric $alpha$-stable distribution is proposed as a replacement for the normal distribution for measurement errors, and the model parameters are estimated using the EM algorithm and numerical methods. Through simulation and real data analysis, the new model is compared with the MCLUST-based model, considering cases with and without measurement errors, and the performance of the proposed model  for data clustering in the presence of various outlier measurement errors is shown.