Should the Median Test be Retired from General Use?

American Statistician

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 161-164

  Freidlin, Boris ^a   Gastwirth, Joseph L ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Kolmogorov Smirnov test; Median test; Nonparametric inference; Power; Two sample rank tests; Wilcoxon test

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034368344     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2000.10474539     Document Type: Article

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