An unbiased test for the bioequivalence problem

It is shown that the standard two one-sided tests procedure for bioequivalence is a biased test. Better tests exist. In this paper, an unbiased α-level test and other tests which are uniformly more powerful than the two one-sided tests procedure are constructed. Its power can be noticeably larger than that of the α-level two one-sided tests procedure.

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