An extension of the Anderson-Darling k-sample test to arbitrary sample space partition sizes

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 651-665

  Thas, Olivier ^a   Ottoy, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Distribution free test; Power; Rank statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042561272     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650310001623399     Document Type: Article

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