Performance of five two-sample location tests for skewed distributions with unequal variances

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 490-496

  Fagerland, Morten W ^a   Sandvik, Leiv ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Brunner Munzel test; Heteroscedasticity; Robustness; Skewness; T test; Two sample location problem; Welch test; Wilcoxon Mann Whitney test; Yuen Welch test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRUNNER MUNZEL TEST; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; HORMONAL THERAPY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PERFORMANCE; RANK SUM TEST; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STUDENT T TEST; WELCH U TEST; YEUN WELCH TEST; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 68349098892     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2009.06.007     Document Type: Article

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