Some notes on the location-scale Cucconi test

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 629-647

  Marozzi, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Rank testing; The Cucconi test; The Lepage test; The location scale problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449377140     PISSN: 10485252     EISSN: 10290311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10485250902952435     Document Type: Article

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