Hypothesis testing for two discrete populations based on the Hellinger distance

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 80, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 206-214

  Basu, A ^a   Mandal, A ^a   Pardo, L ^b  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

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EID: 72049124797     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2009.10.008     Document Type: Article

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