Testing the independence of Poisson variates under the Holgate bivariate distribution: The power of a new evidence test

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 313-320

  Stern, J M ^a,b   Zacks, S ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Correlation and dependence; Evidence test; Holgate distribution; Numerical integration and optimization; Test of hypotheses

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036899536     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(02)00314-0     Document Type: Article

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