Approximate sample size formulas for the two-sample trimmed mean test with unequal variances

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 137-146

  Luh, Wei Ming ^a   Guo, Jiin Huarng ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 34249811792     PISSN: 00071102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000711006X100491     Document Type: Article

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