A test for the two-sample problem based on empirical characteristic functions

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 3730-3748

  Alba Fernandez V ^a   Jimenez Gamero M D ^b   Munoz Garcia J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ARBITRARY FIXED DIMENSION; BOOTSTRAP; EMPIRICAL CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTIONS; WEIGHT FUNCTIONS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 40249105884     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2007.12.013     Document Type: Review

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