Limiting distributions of the non-central t-statistic and their applications to the power of t-tests under non-normality

Bernoulli

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 346-364

  Bentkus, Vidmantas ^a   Jing, Bing Yi ^b   Shao, Qi Man ^b,c   Zhou, Wang ^d  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Domain of attraction; Limit theorems; Non central t statistic; Power of t test

Indexed keywords

EID: 40249117671     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3150/07-BEJ5073     Document Type: Article

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