The 'improved' Brown and Forsythe test for mean equality: Some things can't be fixed

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 687-698

  Keselman, H J ^a   Wilcox, Rand R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behrens Fisher problem; Monte Carlo; Nonnormality; Robust estimators

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013036854     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610919908813572     Document Type: Article

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