Robust test for equality of two population means under the normal model

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 333-353

  Basu, Srabashi ^a   Sarkar, Sahadeb ^b   Basu, Ayanendranath ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic full efficiency; Hellinger distance; Minimum disparity estimation; Robust tests; Weighted likelihood estimation

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

HELLINGER DISTANCE; MINIMUM DISPARITY ESTIMATION; WEIGHTED LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 0031061930     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610919708813383     Document Type: Article

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