Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney or T-test? on assumptions for hypothesis tests and multiple interpretations of decision rules

Statistics Surveys

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-39

  Fay, Michael P ^a   Proschan, Michael A ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behrens Fisher problem; Interval censored data; Nonparametric Behrens Fisher problem; T test; Tajima's d; Wilcoxon rank sum test

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956815759     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19357516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-SS051     Document Type: Article

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