Testing circular symmetry

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 591-600

  Pewsey, Arthur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bootstrap test; Circular data; Large sample omnibus test; Randomization test; Reflective symmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036975239     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3316098     Document Type: Article

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