On a Levene type test for equality of two variances

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 59-71

  Pan, Guohua ^a  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotically distribution free; Contaminated normal; Dispersion; Jackknife procedure; Multiple comparisons; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033242824     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949659908811949     Document Type: Article

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