Generalizing the mann-whitney-wilcoxon statistic

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 661-682

  Xie, Jingdong ^a   Priebe, Carey E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution free confidence interval; Mann whitney wilcoxon; Pitman's asymptotic efficacy; U statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001507564     PISSN: 10485252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10485250008832827     Document Type: Article

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