How robust are tests for two independent samples?

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 137, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2706-2720

  Rasch, Dieter ^a   Teuscher, Friedrich ^b   Guiard, Volker ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ordered categorical data; Robustness; Simulation; t test; Wilcoxon test

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247588676     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2006.04.011     Document Type: Article

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