Student t-tests for potentially abnormal data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 2170-2184

  Shuster, Jonathan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Robustness; Satterthwaite approximation; Sign rank test; T test; Wilcoxon test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NULL HYPOTHESIS; POWER ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST; BIOMETRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

BIOMETRY; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 69149093014     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3581     Document Type: Article

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