A comparison of an adaptive two-sample test to the t-test and the rank-sum test

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1393-1411

  O'Gorman, Thomas W ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive tests; t tests; Two sample tests; Wilcoxon tests

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

ADAPTIVE TESTS; WILCOXON TESTS;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 0031276999     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610919708813446     Document Type: Article

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