A unified approach to rank tests for mixed models

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 249-277

  Akritas, Michael G ^a   Brunner, Edgar ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Factorial designs; Nonparametric hypotheses; Ordered categorical data; Rank statistics; Rank transform; Repeated measures; Ties

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031575047     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(96)00177-2     Document Type: Article

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