A weighted multivariate sign test for cluster-correlated data

Biometrika

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 267-283

  Larocque, Denis ^a   Nevalainen, Jaakko ^b   Oja, Hannu ^c  

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Affine invariance; Clustered observations; Intraclass correlation; Multivariate location problem; One way random effect; Spatial sign test

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846705903     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asm026     Document Type: Article

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