Testing for proportionality of multivariate dispersion structures using interdirections

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 331-349

  Ghosh, Sujit K ^a   Sengupta, Debapriya ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Affine invariant multivariate sign tests; Elliptically symmetric distributions; Interdirections; Sphericity tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347117707     PISSN: 10485252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10485250108832856     Document Type: Article

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