Spurious and non-spurious power in performance criteria for tests of discordancy

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 69-82

  Hayes, Kevin ^a   Kinsella, Tony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b University of Limerick ^*

Author keywords

Discordancy tests; Grubbs's outlier test; Outlier; Power; Simulation; Spurious power; Spurious type II error; Test performance criteria; Type II error

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141872994     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9884.00342     Document Type: Article

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