Preliminary goodness-of-fit tests for normality do not validate the one-sample student t

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2275-2286

  Schucany, William R ^a   Tony Ng, H K ^a  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive procedure; Monte Carlo simulation; Nonparametric; Permutation; Pretest; Robustness; Shapiro Wilk

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY;

ADAPTIVE PROCEDURES; PERMUTATIONS; ROBUSTNESS; SHAPIRO-WILK;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 33845426484     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920600853308     Document Type: Article

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