A note on preliminary tests of equality of variances

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 173-181

  Zimmerman, Donald W ^a,b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 2642541688     PISSN: 00071102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000711004849222     Document Type: Article

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