Asymptotic expansion of the non null distribution of the two-sample t-statistic under non normality with application in power comparison

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1915-1921

  Xu, Jin ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Asymptotic expansion; Characteristic function; Power; Two sample t statistic

Indexed keywords

A-MONOTONE; ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSION; CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTION; CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTIONS; NON-NORMALITY; NULL DISTRIBUTION; POWER COMPARISON; SAMPLE SIZES;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 77952962134     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920902923528     Document Type: Article

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