Cautions in testing variance equality with randomization tests

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 25-31

  Hayes, Andrew F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Permutation tests; Randomization tests; Variance equality; Variance homogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031294213     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949659708811844     Document Type: Article

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