Tests of multinormality based on location vectors and scatter matrices

Statistical Methods and Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 357-379

  Kankainen, Annaliisa ^a   Taskinen, Sara ^a   Oja, Hannu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Affine invariance; Kurtosis; Pitman efficiency; Skewness

Indexed keywords

EID: 35548989693     PISSN: 16182510     EISSN: 1613981X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10260-007-0045-9     Document Type: Article

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