Confidence interval for a coefficient of dispersion in nonnormal distributions

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 144-148

  Bonett, Douglas G ^a   Seier, Edith ^b  

^a Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^b EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Coefficient of variation; Mean absolute deviation; Median

Indexed keywords

A-COEFFICIENT; BOOTSTRAP; BOOTSTRAP CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COEFFICIENT OF DISPERSION; COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATIONS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MEAN ABSOLUTE DEVIATIONS; MEDIAN; NON-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

DISPERSIONS;

EID: 33644682584     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: 15214036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200410148     Document Type: Article

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