Some tests for the equality of covariance matrices

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 25-36

  R Schott, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

62H15; Elliptical distribution; Kurtosis; Wald statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042403643     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(00)00209-3     Document Type: Article

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