Conditional inference under simultaneous stochastic ordering constraints

Testing for stochastic ordering is of considerable importance when increasing does of a treatment are being compared, but in applications involving multivariate responses has received much less attention. We propose a permutation test for testing against multivaniate stochastic ordering. This test is distribution-free and no assumption is made about the dependence relations among variables. A comparative simulation study shows that the proposed solution exhibits a good overall performance when compared with existing tests that can be used for the same problem. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved