Confidence intervals for population ranks in the presence of ties and near ties

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 104, Issue 486, 2009, Pages 775-788

  Xie, Minge ^a   Singh, Kesar ^a   Zhang, Cun Hui ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Large sample theory; Nonstandard bootstrap inference; Rank inference; Slow convergence rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 66549129617     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2009.0142     Document Type: Article

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