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Preprint enviat per a la seva publicació en una revista científica.

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This paper is concerned with the study of the asymptotic properties of Rao distance maximum-likelihood
estimation obtained from two independent samples of two statistical populations, under certain regularity
conditions. These results allow the construction, by meaos of the Rao distance, of a statistical test to compare
different populations, which may be regarded as an alternative to the standard likelihood ratio test.
Furthermore, a geometrical model is supplied which can be used to obtain graphical outputs through numerical
taxonomy methods or multidimensional scaling techniques. Finally, sorne of the previously-mentioned
methods are illustrated by meaos of a specific example based on the univariate normal distribution.

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Reproducció digital del document original en paper [CRAI Biblioteca de Matemàtiques i Informàtica - Dipòsit Departament CAIXA 32.7]

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Preprints de Matemàtiques - Mathematics Preprint Series

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Universitat de Barcelona. Institut de Matemàtica