Robust approach for comparing two dependent normal populations through Wald-type tests based on Rényi’s pseudodistance estimators

Since the two seminal papers by Fisher (Biometrika 10:507–521, 1915; Metron 1:1–32, 1921) were published, the test under a fixed value correlation coefficient null hypothesis for the bivariate normal distribution constitutes an important statistical problem. In the framework of asymptotic robust statistics, it remains being a topic of great interest to be investigated. For this and other tests, focused on paired correlated normal random …