Inference on the location parameter of exponential populations

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Studentization and analysis of variance are simple in Gaussian families because X and S 2 are independent random variables. We exploit the independence of the spacings in exponential populations with location ‚ and scale ‐ to develop simple ways of dealing with inference on the location parameter, namely by developing an analysis of scale in the homocedastic independent k-sample problem.