Methods for comparing the means of two independent log-normal samples

Biometrics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1129-1135

  Zhou, Xiao Hua ^a,b   Gao, Sujuan ^a   Hui, Siu L ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Cost data; Likelihood; Log normal

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

BOOTSTRAP; COST DATA; LIKELIHOOD; LOG-NORMAL; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POWER; SIMULATION STUDIES; T-TESTS; TYPE I ERROR RATE; WILCOXON TEST;

BIT ERROR RATE;

ARTICLE; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

EID: 0030767725     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533570     Document Type: Article

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