Monte Carlo evaluation of ordinal d with improved confidence interval

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 322-332

  Feng, Du ^a   Cliff, Norman ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; d statistic; Monte Carlo study; Welch's t

Indexed keywords

EID: 18344373508     PISSN: 15389472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22237/jmasm/1099267560     Document Type: Article

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