Critical values for 22 discordancy test variants for outliers in normal samples up to sizes 100, and applications in science and engineering

Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 302-319

  Verma, Surendra P ^a   Quiroz Ruiz, Alfredo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ENERGÍAS RENOVABLES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

2s; Critical value tables; Dixon Q test; Kurtosis; Monte Carlo simulations; Normal sample; Outlier methods; Petroleum hydrocarbon; Reference materials; Skewness; Two standard deviation method

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750439118     PISSN: 10268774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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