Two-stage U-statistics for hypothesis testing

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 861-873

  Ho, Hwai Chung ^a   Shieh, Grace S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Circular data; Hypothesis testing; Independence test; U statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750999044     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2006.00516.x     Document Type: Article

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