One sample tests for the location of modes of nonnormal data

Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-19

  Carolan, Anthony M ^a   Rayner, J C W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Multimodal Distributions; Score Test; Skewed Distributions; T test; Wald Test; Wilcoxon Test

Indexed keywords

EID: 52549120498     PISSN: 11739126     EISSN: 15327612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327612jamds0501_1     Document Type: Article

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