On the limiting distributions of multivariate depth-based rank sum statistics and related tests

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2879-2896

  Zuo, Yijun ^a   He, Xuming ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Data depth; Efficiency; Limiting distribution; Multivariate data; Rank sum statistic; Two sample problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547379416     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053606000000876     Document Type: Article

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