One sample tests of location for nonnormal symmetric data

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1569-1581

  Carolan, A M ^a   Rayner, J C W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

One sample t test; Power; Score test; Smooth goodness of fit; Wilcoxon test

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039798107     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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