Nonparametric Two-Sample Comparisons of Changes on Ordinal Responses

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 94, Issue 447, 1999, Pages 970-978

  Bajorski, Peter ^a   Petkau, John ^b  

^a Kate Gleason College of Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cochran Armitage test; Linear rank statistic; Pitman efficiency; Poststratification; U statistic; Wilcoxon statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542637401     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1999.10474201     Document Type: Article

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