A comparative study of nonparametric two-sample tests after Levene's transformation

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 517-526

  Neuhäuser, Markus ^a  

^a Koblenz University of Applied Science   (Germany)

Author keywords

Homogeneity of variance; Linear rank statistic; Permutation test; Unbalanced sample sizes

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249052218     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650601173996     Document Type: Article

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