Inference about the mean of a skewed population: A comparative study

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 421-435

  Baklizi, Ayman ^a  

^a YARMOUK UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Bartlett correction; Empirical likelihood; Population mean; Skewed population; T test

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749161981     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10629360601034471     Document Type: Article

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