Rank tests for independence - With a weighted contamination alternative

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 577-593

  Shieh, Grace S ^a   Bai, Zhidong ^b   Tsai, Wei Yann ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Association; Independence test; Kendall's tau; Rank; Spearman's rho

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034370196     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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