Comparing medians: An overview plus new results on dealing with heavy-tailed distributions

Journal of Experimental Education

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 249-263

  Wilcox, Rand R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap techniques; Nonparametric methods; Outliers; Robust methods; Trimmed means

Indexed keywords

EID: 30444435788     PISSN: 00220973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/JEXE.73.3.249-263     Document Type: Article

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