Sign test of independence between two random vectors

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 9-21

  Taskinen, Sara ^a   Kankainen, Annaliisa ^a   Oja, Hannu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Affine invariance; Pitman efficiency; Quadrant test; Robustness; Wilks' test

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037445501     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(02)00399-1     Document Type: Article

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