Distribution of Fisher's combination statistic when the tests are dependent

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-12

  Yang, James J ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Combining tests; Correlation coefficient; Permutation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649105221     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650802412607     Document Type: Article

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