Testing the equality of dependent intraclass correlation coefficients

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 367-379

  Donner, Allan ^a   Zou, Guangyong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fisher's transformation; Hypothesis testing; Interobserver agreement; Intraclass correlation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040669456     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9884.00324     Document Type: Article

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