A Monte Carlo comparison of studentized bootstrap and permutation tests for heteroscedastic two-sample problems

Computational Statistics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 369-383

  Janssen, Arnold ^a   Pauls, Thorsten ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behrens Fisher; Bootstrap test; Permutation test; Pitman's permutation test; Studentized statistic; Welch test; Wilcoxon test

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746037217     PISSN: 09434062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02741303     Document Type: Article

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