Biased and unbiased two-sided Wilcoxon tests for equal sample sizes

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 93-100

  Sugiura, Nariaki ^a,b   Murakami, Hidetoshi ^a   Lee, Seong Keon ^a   Maeda, Yasutomo ^a,c  

^a CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Korea University ^*  (Japan)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Beta distribution; Location parameter; Power curve; Rank test; Two sample problem; Unbiasedness

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BETA DISTRIBUTION; LOCATION PARAMETER; POWER CURVE; RANK TEST; TWO SAMPLE PROBLEM; UNBIASEDNESS; WILCOXON TESTS;

SAMPLING;

EID: 33645706983     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: 15729052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10463-005-0019-3     Document Type: Article

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