Approximating the power of Wilcoxon's rank-sum test against shift alternatives

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 2763-2773

  Troendle, James F ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0033619527     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19991030)18:20<2763::AID-SIM197>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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