A weighted least squares approach to Levene's test of homogeneity of variance

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 81-100

  O'Neill, Michael E ^a   Mathews, Ky ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b University of Sydney ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Absolute values of residuals; Homogeneity of variance; Levene's test; Mean deviation; Median deviation; Weighted least squares

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034383540     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-842X.00109     Document Type: Article

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