Testing for order among K populations: Theory and examples

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 97-115

  Davidov, Ori ^a   Herman, Amir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dose response; Maximally selected chi bar square statistic; Minimal effective dose; Msc 2000: primary 62G10; Order restricted inference; Partitioning principle; Secondary 62G30; Statistical selection; Stochastic order

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949906353     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: 1708945X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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