Significance tests and confidence intervals for coefficients of variation

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 449-452

  Reh, Wolfgang ^a   Scheffler, Bernard ^a  

^a F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coefficient of variation; Confidence intervals; Distributions; Moments; Single and multiple sample tests

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISTRIBUTION MOMENTS; SIGNIFICANCE TESTS; VARIATION COEFFICIENTS;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 0030211446     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-9473(96)83707-8     Document Type: Article

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