A test for homogeneity of ordered means of inverse Gaussian populations

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 37-49

  Mudholkar, Govind S ^a   Tian, Lili ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Fisher's combination method; Likelihood ratio test; Normality; Order restricted inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142023924     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(02)00396-8     Document Type: Article

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