Inflation of Type I error rates by unequal variances associated with parametric, nonparametric, and rank-transformation tests

Psicologica

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 103-133

  Zimmerman, Donald W ^a,b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

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