Robustness properties of the Pitman-Morgan test

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1801-1816

  Mudholkar, Govind S ^a   Wilding, Gregory E ^b   Mietlowski, William L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICS;

MATRIX SPHERICAL DISTRIBUTION; NONNORMAL BIVARIATE POPULATION; PITMAN-MORGAN TEST;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 0043025036     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-120022710     Document Type: Article

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