Pairwise comparisons of the means of skewed data

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 59-74

  Tu, Wanzhu ^a,b   Zhou, Xiao Hua ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Regenstrief Institute for Health Care   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Log normal distribution; Pairwise comparison; Primary 62F25; Secondary 62P99; Skewed data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010065136     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(99)00206-2     Document Type: Article

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