An affine-invariant generalization of the Wilcoxon signed-rank test for the bivariate location problem

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 153-165

  Larocque, Denis ^a   Tardif, Serge ^c   Van Eeden, Constance ^b  

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Affine invariance; Bivariate location; Conditionally distribution free; Wilcoxon signedrank test

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037570581     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-842X.00271     Document Type: Article

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