Testing for Shifts in the Vertical Distribution of Plankton Using a Robust Kolmogorov-Smirnov Like Statistic

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 421-429

  Smith, Woollcott ^a,b   Beet, Andrew ^b   Solow, Andrew R ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap pivoting; Compound multinomial; Cumulative distributions; Plankton profiles; Randomization tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003272526     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1400574     Document Type: Article

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