Distribution-free two-sample comparisons in the case of heterogeneous variances

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 617-623

  Neuhäuser, Markus ^a   Ruxton, Graeme D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES KOBLENZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behrens Fisher problem; Distribution free (nonparametric) test; Two sample comparison; Unequal variances

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HETEROGENEITY; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 58649114709     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-008-0683-4     Document Type: Article

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