Performance of the traditional pooled variance t-test against the bootstrap procedure of difference between sample means

Malaysian Journal of Mathematical Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 85-94

  Yin, Teh Sin ^a   Yusof, Zahayu Md ^b   Yaacob, Che Rohani ^a   Othman, Abdul Rahman ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Monte Carlo; T test; Type I error

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952720413     PISSN: 18238343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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