Robust tests for the equality of variances for clustered data

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 365-377

  Iachine, Ivan ^a   Petersen, Hans Chr ^a   Kyvik, Kirsten O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Clustered data; Equality of variances; Levene's test; Non normality; Robust tests; Twins

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951202137     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650802641841     Document Type: Article

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