How useful are approximations to mean and variance of the index of dissimilarity?

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2098-2109

  Mulekar, Madhuri S ^a   Knutson, John C ^a   Champanerkar, Jyoti A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingency table; Measure of dissimilarity; Random allocation model; Standardization

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; STANDARDIZATION; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

CONTINGENCY TABLES; INFERENCE TECHNIQUES; MEASURE OF DISSIMILARITIES; RANDOM ALLOCATION MODELS;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 35748948086     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2007.07.007     Document Type: Article

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