“Student” and small-sample theory

Statistical Science

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 418-426

  Lehmann, E L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assumption of normality; History of statistics; Hypothesis testing; Neyman Pearson theory; Robustness; exact distribution theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012996815     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/ss/1009212520     Document Type: Article

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