Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test for stratified samples and Efron's paradox dice

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 720-737

  Thangavelu, Karthinathan ^a   Brunner, Edgar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Multi center clinical trials; Nonparametric procedure; Nontransitive effects; Rank procedure

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750513678     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2006.06.005     Document Type: Article

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