A powerful transformation trimmed mean method for one-way fixed effects ANOVA model under non-normality and inequality of variances

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 303-320

  Luh, Wei Ming ^a   Guo, Jiin Huarng ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

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EID: 0007687551     PISSN: 00071102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000711099159125     Document Type: Article

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