Testing on the common mean of several normal distributions

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 321-333

  Chang, Ching Hui ^a   Pal, Nabendu ^b  

^a MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LUTETIUM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICS; TESTING;

APPLIED PROBABILITIES; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; FIRST ORDERS; GENERALIZED VARIABLES; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATORS; PARAMETRIC BOOTSTRAPS; POINT ESTIMATIONS; SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL INFERENCES; STATISTICAL PLANNING; TEST METHODS; TEST PROCEDURES; TEST STATISTICS; UNBIASED ESTIMATIONS; VARIANCE ESTIMATES; VARIANCE ESTIMATORS;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 55549113537     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2008.07.024     Document Type: Article

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