A new look at rank tests in ordered 2×k contingency tables

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 29, Issue 5-6, 2000, Pages 989-1003

  Permutt, Thomas ^a   Berger, Vance W ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximum chi square; Operating characteristic; P P plot; Stochastic order; Van der Waerden test

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005215972     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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