On the resistance of rank correlation

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 59-81

  Zayed, Hany ^a   Quade, Dana ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Blurring errors; Gross errors; Rank correlation; Test resistance; Ties

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031371143     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949659708811822     Document Type: Article

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