A modified Wilcoxon test for non-negative distributions with a clump of zeros

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 391-400

  Hallstrom, Alfred P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Clumps of zeros; Rank sum tests; Tied scores; Truncated data; Wilcoxon

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; PARAMETER; RANK SUM TEST; SAMPLE; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARIANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 74749083211     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3785     Document Type: Article

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