Two approaches to grouping of data and related disparity statistics

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 609-633

  Menendez M ^b   Morales, D ^b   Pardo, L ^b   Vajda, I ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION THEORY AND AUTOMATION   (Czech Republic)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Asymptotic distribution; Disparity measures; Divergence measures; Order statistics; Testing statistical hypotheses

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008202192     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929808832117     Document Type: Article

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