Four improved statistics for contrasting means by correcting skewness and kurtosis

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 209-237

  Yanagihara, Hirokazu ^a   Yuan, Ke Hai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 27844581293     PISSN: 00071102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000711005X64060     Document Type: Article

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