Tests for equality of dispersion in bivariate samples - Review and empirical comparison

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 353-372

  Piepho, H P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Homogeneity of variance; Monte Carlo simulation; Power; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031496296     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949659708811799     Document Type: Article

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