Combination setwise-bonferroni-type bounds

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 59-77

  Costigan, Timothy M ^a  

^a ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

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EID: 0344579143     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6750(199602)43:1<59::AID-NAV4>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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