A nonparametric two-sample comparison for skewed data with unequal variances

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 691-693

  Neuhäuser, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES KOBLENZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behrense Fisher problem; Brunnere Munzel test; Heteroscedasticity; Nonnormal data; Nonparametric test; Transformation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77956638483     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2009.08.026     Document Type: Article

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