Comparing pearson correlations: Dealing with heteroscedasticity and nonnormality

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2220-2234

  Wilcox, Rand R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heteroscedasticity; Level robust methods; Measures of association; Nonnormality

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HETEROSCEDASTICITY; MEASURES OF ASSOCIATION; NON-NORMALITY; PEARSON CORRELATION; ROBUST METHODS;

STATISTICS;

EID: 79961162769     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: 15324141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610910903289151     Document Type: Article

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