Rank test of location optimal for hyperbolic secant distribution

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1617-1630

  Kravchuk, O Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cauchy distribution; Hyperbolic secant distribution; Logistic distribution; Two sample rank test; Van der waerden test; Wilcoxon test

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; DATA ACQUISITION; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SET THEORY; THEOREM PROVING; VECTORS;

CAUCHY DISTRIBUTIONS; HYPERBOLIC SECANT DISTRIBUTIONS; LOGISTIC DISTRIBUTIONS; TWO-SAMPLE RANK TEST; VAN DER WAERDEN TEST; WILCOXON TEST;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 23144466598     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-200063236     Document Type: Article

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