In this article, multiple comparison procedures with the average of exponential location parameters when sample sizes are equal are under investigation. A subset selection approach and a simultaneous confidence interval approach with minimum expected length are considered for exponential distributions with common known or unknown scale parameter. These procedures will have broad applications in selecting a subset which includes all better-than-the-average treatments in experimental design and/or in identifying all better-than-the-average, worse-than-the-average and not-much-difference-from-the-average products in agriculture, business, manufacturing and other industries. Some numerical approximation approaches using Bonferroni inequality are proposed in this article. Statistical tables to implement these procedures for the case of equal sample size are provided for use in practice. A simulation result indicates that Bonferroni approximation performs better than the confidence interval with equal-tail probability. Computer software programs for calculating the percentage points and for simulation are available from the authors.
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Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 26(4), pp.461-484
