Testing hypotheses on coefficients of variation from a series of two-armed experiments

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 409-419

  Argaç, Dogan ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analysis of variance; Heteroscedastic variances; Homogeneity; One way classification; Two armed experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 21844460528     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664760500079225     Document Type: Article

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