Development of an efficient SAS® macro to perform permutation tests for two independent samples

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 179-187

  Balasubramani, G K ^a   Wisniewski, Stephen R ^a   Zhang, Hongwei ^a   Eng, Heather F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Difference in means; Exact probability; Permutation tests; Randomization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY;

CLINICAL TRIALS; MEDIANS; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PERMUTATION TESTS;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DATA ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; STATISTICS;

CLINICAL TRIALS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS;

EID: 22044446687     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2005.03.010     Document Type: Article

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