On power and sample size determinations for the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 33-43

  Shieh, Gwowen ^a   Jan, Show Li ^b   Randles, Ronald H ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Large sample approximation; Nonparametric method; Two sample location problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645160040     PISSN: 10485252     EISSN: 10290311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10485250500473099     Document Type: Article

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